{"id":17037,"date":"2021-12-16T09:13:54","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T14:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=17037"},"modified":"2021-12-16T09:13:54","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T14:13:54","slug":"16dec2021-ocf-update-a-quiet-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/16\/16dec2021-ocf-update-a-quiet-day\/","title":{"rendered":"16DEC2021 &#8211; OCF Update &#8211; A Quiet Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning, good morning.\u00a0 Less than ten days to Christmas and the grandkids are buzzing with anticipation.\u00a0 Camera Girl is like some kind of kitchen prisoner slaving away at cookie dough and stockpiling the gravies and other ingredients she&#8217;ll need for the roast beast that will be served for Christmas dinner.\u00a0 And I, even I, am experiencing the pre-Christmas rebirth that makes this such a great time.\u00a0 I can watch one of the Christmas Carol versions and still get the thrill of seeing Scrooge repent his inhumanity.\u00a0 I can still see him marvel at Fezziwig&#8217;s kindness and get a kind of sympathetic response when I look back on my own life and remember when I was the beneficiary of an act of true kindness from a family member or a friend, or even better, from a total stranger.\u00a0 And maybe a lot of other people have this sort of feeling at this time of the year too.<\/p>\n<p>As for the site, I will have a lot of chores in the next week or so.\u00a0 This may cut into my posting a bit but I&#8217;m sure everyone else is also busy.\u00a0 A few less outrages to read about won&#8217;t harm any of us, even the most bloody minded.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll try to include all the positive things I can find or think of but since traffic goes down quite a bit at this time of year I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll be forgiven for any lapses.\u00a0 So enjoy the 16th of December and we&#8217;ll see what emerges today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning, good morning.\u00a0 Less than ten days to Christmas and the grandkids are buzzing with anticipation.\u00a0 Camera Girl is like some kind of kitchen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,818],"tags":[580],"class_list":["post-17037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-ocf","tag-ocf-update"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>16DEC2021 - OCF Update - A Quiet Day - Orion&#039;s Cold Fire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/16\/16dec2021-ocf-update-a-quiet-day\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"16DEC2021 - OCF Update - A Quiet Day - Orion&#039;s Cold Fire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Good morning, good morning.\u00a0 Less than ten days to Christmas and the grandkids are buzzing with anticipation.\u00a0 Camera Girl is like some kind of kitchen\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/16\/16dec2021-ocf-update-a-quiet-day\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Orion&#039;s Cold Fire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-12-16T14:13:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"photog\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@orionscoldfire\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@orionscoldfire\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"photog\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/16\/16dec2021-ocf-update-a-quiet-day\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/16\/16dec2021-ocf-update-a-quiet-day\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"photog\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#\/schema\/person\/d11e80f83f3825ce9fe38a5303eb64d3\"},\"headline\":\"16DEC2021 &#8211; 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