{"id":256,"date":"2010-12-18T19:10:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T00:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/?p=256"},"modified":"2010-12-18T19:10:09","modified_gmt":"2010-12-19T00:10:09","slug":"merry-minimalist-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/merry-minimalist-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Minimalist Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minimalism seems to be gaining momentum in some circles as people yearn for a simpler life and want to get off the consumer treadmill and declutter their house. This year there is a lot of commentary about applying minimalist principles to the most marketed consumer holidays of all &#8211; Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a sampling of perspectives on how to have a merry minimalist Christmas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeisabucket.com\/2010\/12\/30-awesome-christmas-trees-with-30-inspirational-presents-for-the-ones-you-love\/\">30 Awesome Christmas trees and inspirational messages<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/zenhabits.net\/bah\/\">The case against buying Christmas presents<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.farbeyondthestars.com\/its-a-minimalist-christmas-how-to-give-the-best-gift-this-holiday-nothing\/\">How to give what matters<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missminimalist.com\/2009\/11\/i\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m-dreaming-of-a-minimalist-christmas\/\">Dreaming of a minimalist Christmas<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is an interesting thought experiment that some people are applying:<\/p>\n<p>What would Christmas be like without the commercialism?<\/p>\n<p>Is it possible that it could allow for more true spirit and creative &#8220;gifts&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>However you, family, and friends choose to celebrate I wish you a peaceful, enjoyable, and happy Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minimalism seems to be gaining momentum in some circles as people yearn for a simpler life and want to get off the consumer treadmill and declutter their house. This year there is a lot of commentary about applying minimalist principles to the most marketed consumer holidays of all &#8211; Christmas. Here is a sampling of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/merry-minimalist-christmas\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Merry Minimalist Christmas<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attitude","category-happiness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pUBG8-48","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257,"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}