{"id":5134,"date":"2020-12-15T12:55:32","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T17:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=5134"},"modified":"2020-12-16T15:34:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T20:34:42","slug":"christmas-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=5134","title":{"rendered":"Christmas 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, I went to my parents&#8217; house for Christmas, although sometimes I\u2019d stay at home here on the island. Christmas Day on Hatteras is a time of indescribable peace, quiet and hardly any traffic. There\u2019s no feeling like it any other day of the year. Most transplants leave and travel to be with families elsewhere. The beaches are nearly empty and it would seem those still here have the entire place to themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Combing the beaches on Christmas Day I\u2019ve found a traditional symbol of the time, what I\u2019d call makeshift Christmas trees. Whenever I see them they touch my heart and, I photograph them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/P1030924-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5135\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/P1030924-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/P1030924-1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/P1030924-1-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Christmas Day of 2018 this undecorated tree stood out on an empty beach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5136\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2019.jpg 600w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2019-400x301.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Christmas Day of 2019, I was happy to see this naturally decorated one. They&#8217;re always anonymous and delightful to see.<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, I went to my parents&#8217; house for Christmas, although sometimes I\u2019d stay at home here on the island. Christmas Day on Hatteras is a time of indescribable peace, quiet and hardly any traffic. There\u2019s no feeling like it any other day of the year. Most transplants leave and travel to be with families [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beach","category-outer-banks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5134"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5149,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5134\/revisions\/5149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}