{"id":627,"date":"2015-01-02T19:52:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T00:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonesling.us\/blog\/?p=627"},"modified":"2016-01-02T16:38:32","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T21:38:32","slug":"new-years-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=627","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_629\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-629\" style=\"width: 236px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonesling.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/20141226-Quincy-Market-X-mas-tree.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-629\" src=\"\/\/jonesling.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/20141226-Quincy-Market-X-mas-tree-236x300.png\" alt=\"xmas tree\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/20141226-Quincy-Market-X-mas-tree-236x300.png 236w, https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/20141226-Quincy-Market-X-mas-tree.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 85vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-629\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Christmas tree at Quincy Market, December 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We have established some new family traditions around Christmas and New Years:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a family night out to Quincy Market to see the Christmas tree and have some dinner;<\/li>\n<li>the early-evening fireworks on Boston Common for New Year&#8217;s Eve.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are real, official traditions &#8211; we&#8217;ve done them for at least two years in a row.<\/p>\n<p>The night at Quincy Market isn&#8217;t fancy: a casual stroll around the touristy section of Boston, with some overpriced dinner and maybe some trinkets from the various and sundry vendors.\u00a0 A ride on the carousel, before it closes for the year, is mandatory.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_630\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-630\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonesling.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/20141226-Dad-and-Adele-selfie.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-630 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/jonesling.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/20141226-Dad-and-Adele-selfie-225x300.png\" alt=\"selfie, Dad and Alpha child\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/20141226-Dad-and-Adele-selfie-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/20141226-Dad-and-Adele-selfie.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-630\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My beard makes me look like sasquatch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Along with the Christmas tree there is a light show called &#8216;Blink,&#8217; which plays every hour or so.\u00a0 Music by the Boston Pops is piped in over the loudspeakers.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>We chose to stay home for Christmas Day, rather than travelling to Connecticut to join our folks.\u00a0 <strong>That<\/strong> is a tradition I can get behind &#8211; so much less stress than driving around all day.<\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t plan much for the day.\u00a0 We held open the possibility of going to the cinema, but the girls wanted to stay home and watch a movie we got for Christmas (<a title=\"Guardians of the Galaxy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2015381\/\" target=\"_blank\">Guardians of the Galaxy<\/a>).\u00a0 Having a low-stress holiday is refreshing, so unlike the holidays of my childhood.<\/p>\n<p>My folks weren&#8217;t thrilled with not seeing us &#8211; my father is very resistant to change, and he&#8217;s accustomed to hosting the entire family &#8211; but we had Christmas Part II on the following Sunday, which was actually pretty fun.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_631\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-631\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonesling.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/20141231-Boston-Common-fireworks.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-631\" src=\"\/\/jonesling.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/20141231-Boston-Common-fireworks.png\" alt=\"starburst\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/20141231-Boston-Common-fireworks.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/20141231-Boston-Common-fireworks-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-631\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pair of starbursts over Boston Common, New Year&#8217;s Eve 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This year Baba (the kids&#8217; name for their grandmother) joined us for the fireworks.\u00a0 We took the train in, ate dinner in the city, and walked to the Common with hot chocolate in hand.<\/p>\n<p>The weather was cold but the sky was clear.\u00a0 The show ran a little long, about 15 minutes, but the kids were thrilled and we all forgot about the cold for a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have established some new family traditions around Christmas and New Years: a family night out to Quincy Market to see the Christmas tree and have some dinner; the early-evening fireworks on Boston Common for New Year&#8217;s Eve. These are real, official traditions &#8211; we&#8217;ve done them for at least two years in a row. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=627\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Year&#8217;s 2014&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[61,63,244],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","tag-boston","tag-christmas","tag-nye"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o3FW-a7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1163,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}