{"id":3451,"date":"2024-12-30T16:38:57","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T16:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3451"},"modified":"2024-12-30T16:38:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T16:38:57","slug":"the-holidays-as-1001-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3451","title":{"rendered":"The Holidays as 1001 Nights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The holidays are so full and strange, how do you put your finger on them?\u00a0\u00a0(They\u2019re like angels, amorphous, without gender, age, bodily materiality.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Not knowing how to celebrate \u2013\u00a0<em>what do Santa Claus and Jesus have to do with each othe<\/em>r? \u2013 we languish, spin longrunning sentences over tea, segue from the faux pas of old racist boss at the holiday party to best of Wicked to why a mother didn\u2019t keep her kid from eating cake off a slip of paper on the Penn Station floor.\u00a0\u00a0The thin veneer of civilization mentioned \u2013 it rubs off in uncivilized holiday travel \u2013then we languish more, ferret out a few gray hairs among sisters, watch a tear form and magnify a gorgeous eye, then silently make its lonely trace down a soft cheek to the corner of a lip.\u00a0\u00a0Wonder again about that baby Jes\u00fa.\u00a0\u00a0Some of us run out to see the only positive connection, plump infants, bully infants in gold leaf on Italian medieval paintings \u2013 then come back to languish, it now obvious it is one very long sentence where the gossip keeps getting sharper, tarter \u2013 and the bonds of love more velvet.\u00a0\u00a0Keep talking, lest we lose our values and become self-branded products, milk and makeup brands ourselves.\u00a0\u00a0As a new world begs to be born but can\u2019t figure out how the hell to do it.\u00a0\u00a0We keep talking, we\u2019ve read 1001 Nights; as long as we don\u2019t use the word \u201cbroken\u201d &#8212; the most broken word ever \u2013we\u2019ll be spellbound together.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The holidays are so full and strange, how do you put your finger on them?\u00a0\u00a0(They\u2019re like angels, amorphous, without gender, age, bodily materiality.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Not knowing how to celebrate \u2013\u00a0what do Santa Claus and Jesus have to do with each other? \u2013 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3451\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[1],"tags":[1123,370,1435,1539,1538,1188],"class_list":["post-3451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adult-children","tag-christmas","tag-daughters","tag-family","tag-hanukkah","tag-holidays"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-TF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3454,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451\/revisions\/3454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}