Around this time every year, synapses begin firing in brains telling people to send out holiday greeting cards. The synapse in my brain that controls card sending behavior doesn’t work properly. It rarely fires at all, but when it does, it doesn’t tell me to send holiday greeting cards. My synapse
\nfires and tells me to send… shoelaces. If you ever get a pair of shoelaces in the mail from me, that is my way of saying \u201cHappy Holidays.\u201d<\/p>\n
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I spent a lot of time searching for the perfect photo for my blog to wish everyone a beautiful, joyous, holiday season. I kept finding gorgeous photos of Christmas trees. There were lots of photos with Santa, ornaments, candles, and poinsettias. I wanted my photo to be perfect for everyone, no matter what holiday traditions they celebrated.<\/p>\n
I found so many photos, but not the perfect one. The more I looked for the perfect photo, the more confused I became. Finally, the \u201cperfect blog photo\u201d synapse fired in my brain and selected a photo. As usual, my synapses fired in a faulty manner. My brain selected this photo of brussel sprouts as the perfect blog photo to wish everyone \u201cHappy Holidays.\u201d<\/p>\n
Forgive me. Most of you probably don’t even like brussel sprouts. Actually, I am not that fond of them myself, but for whatever reason my brain decided the lowly, and mostly disliked, brussel sprout is my symbol of holiday joy this season!<\/p>\n
The GovGab bloggers<\/a> and the Federal Citizen Information Center<\/a> staff wish all of you the best this holiday season. May the joy of the season fill your heart… and may my blog photo inspire you to try brussel sprouts at your holiday dinner!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Around this time every year, synapses begin firing in brains telling people to send out holiday greeting cards. The synapse in my brain that controls card sending behavior doesn’t work properly. It rarely fires at all, but when it does, it doesn’t tell me to send holiday greeting cards. My synapse fires and tells me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2635,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2GsP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2635"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}