{"id":2073,"date":"2024-12-06T14:50:39","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T14:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/?p=2073"},"modified":"2024-12-06T14:52:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T14:52:18","slug":"holiday-clearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/holiday-clearance\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Clearance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>It&#8217;s a busy time of year. Not helped by the fact that this year there are six fewer shopping days between Thanksgiving and Xmas than last year. We&#8217;re all working through the inbox, checking things off the to-do list, finalizing travel plans, thinking about holiday menus&#8230; \u00a0 <br><br>So rather than write anything new, this week I&#8217;m offering a clearance on some very old inventory.\u00a0Come and get it. \u00a0 <br><br>Why our 12th month is named after the number 10: <a href=\"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/8-3-12-what-the-hail\/\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">What the Hail?<\/mark> \u00a0 <\/a><br><br>Shocking revelations about reindeer: <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/12-19-24-reindeer-too\/\">Reindeer Magic <\/a>\u00a0 <\/mark><br><br>Why kids eat candy in December: <a href=\"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/12-8-17-colorful-candy-chocolate-chapter-2\/\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Light in the Darkness<\/mark> \u00a0<\/a> <br><br>And on the subject of candy, how I had a personal run-in with some talking chocolate and a jolly fat guy in a big red suit: <a href=\"https:\/\/ibklvidab.cc.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001WnzcArRDfDBs0aq3MDcRFoy9jDt-NTsvxzIW0ARhSstqMMQHDMdjdLRTYmqStZ0p0FGFswTyV8lLj2plpqSVsoCoM5hOHq5Vrn7Sfzx68HghTtXvUA1Bl8RzeXpWfu40_AJwGBvp8hl2IxMx1uIaLg4j3HiVIslBTJIW6TtW09HB5FdQXkgaq-V0gMEyjrjCqxKwwQwULEdSiAKAYxehljJI-9AS5uAaVygOhyHj7m0=&amp;c=foSXA36xlf01agPOGLmv7qFl6gkfGWVwfISFJ1PTrxr69KJYbTWjSg==&amp;ch=ctt64mNkbHUMKlWp3jmbFayIBzdJxVKoaesiMLRdy7AJcHNi8rKflQ==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">A Very Yellow Sequel<\/mark><\/a> \u00a0 <br><br>Now get back to work.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a busy time of year. Not helped by the fact that this year there are six fewer shopping days between Thanksgiving and Xmas than last year. We&#8217;re all working through the inbox, checking things off the to-do list, finalizing travel plans, thinking about holiday menus&#8230; \u00a0 So rather than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2075,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions\/2075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}