{"id":5153,"date":"2021-01-29T12:23:47","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T17:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=5153"},"modified":"2021-02-09T14:17:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T19:17:32","slug":"old-christmas-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=5153","title":{"rendered":"Old Christmas 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where I live, the celebration of Old Christmas has been a certainty every new year. I\u2019ve heard that it\u2019s been going on for over a hundred years, and probably longer. This year it would have been on January 2nd, except for the pandemic. It was cancelled for the first time ever. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The festivities normally take place from the afternoon and into the night. I have to admit my favorite part of it, other than the appearance of Old Buck, is the oyster roast.<\/p>\n

This year to compensate, I collected a bucket of oysters from Pamlico Sound and had them on my front porch. I gave some away and ate the rest.<\/p>\n

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I shucked a panful for the oven.<\/p>\n

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The flavor of a chilled, raw Pamlico Sound oyster is unsurpassed.<\/p>\n

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I missed sharing them with my friends, like this feast from 2009.<\/p>\n

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I also missed greeting Old Buck.<\/p>\n

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The next day I went to an empty community building where Old Christmas would have been celebrated. It was stark with nothing to clean up after what would have been a night of revelry.<\/p>\n

I visited a monument nearby dedicated to our working watermen and thought about my friends that have lost their lives to the sea.<\/p>\n

Eddie O’Neal, Dennis Midgett, Ed Corley, Russ Privott and Mike Midgett came to mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Where I live, the celebration of Old Christmas has been a certainty every new year. I\u2019ve heard that it\u2019s been going on for over a hundred years, and probably longer. This year it would have been on January 2nd, except for the pandemic. It was cancelled for the first time ever. \u00a0 The festivities normally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,26,23,27,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-outer-banks","category-oysters","category-pamlico-sound","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5153","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=5153"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5169,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5153\/revisions\/5169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}