{"id":702,"date":"2014-12-09T09:34:26","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T14:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormwoodqueen.com\/tea\/?p=702"},"modified":"2014-12-09T09:34:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T14:34:26","slug":"the-christmas-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormwoodqueen.com\/tea\/the-christmas-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"The Christmas Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormwoodqueen.com\/tea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/The-Christmas-Gift-Cover-Cut-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-703\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thewormwoodqueen.com\/tea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/The-Christmas-Gift-Cover-Cut-copy-297x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Christmas Gift Cover Cut copy\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thewormwoodqueen.com\/tea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/The-Christmas-Gift-Cover-Cut-copy-297x300.jpg 297w, http:\/\/www.thewormwoodqueen.com\/tea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/The-Christmas-Gift-Cover-Cut-copy-1015x1024.jpg 1015w, http:\/\/www.thewormwoodqueen.com\/tea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/The-Christmas-Gift-Cover-Cut-copy-146x148.jpg 146w, http:\/\/www.thewormwoodqueen.com\/tea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/The-Christmas-Gift-Cover-Cut-copy-31x31.jpg 31w, http:\/\/www.thewormwoodqueen.com\/tea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/The-Christmas-Gift-Cover-Cut-copy-38x38.jpg 38w, http:\/\/www.thewormwoodqueen.com\/tea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/The-Christmas-Gift-Cover-Cut-copy-213x215.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;The Christmas Gift&#8221; is a poem written by my husband. He wrote it 25 years ago, I guess it&#8217;s time he put it out there, eh? It&#8217;s an adorable story that explains how it was that Santa Claus came to be. In a way that you would probably not expect! I did the illustrations for this one. It was a lot of fun and the little boy in the story is modeled after my son, Gabe with a few nods to his brothers, Ian and Joe. They all looked quite a bit alike when they were little.\u00a0 It also calls to mind the first Christmas that we all spent together as a new blended family. That Christmas morning we left clues around the house that\u00a0our children had to decipher. These clues\u00a0would eventually lead them\u00a0to their presents and along the way they led to some bonding. What brought it all together was another poem\u00a0Ted wrote about St. Nick. It was one\u00a0that united all of us in the past and through that, it united us in the present. So his stories\/poems have a special place in my heart and I think they will find their place in other people&#8217;s hearts as well.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve put this all together now and have made it available in a book which can be ordered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Christmas-Gift-Ted-Jauw\/dp\/1481112252\/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1418135490&amp;sr=8-5&amp;keywords=henriott+jauw&amp;pebp=1418135495284\">HERE<\/a>.\u00a0 Hope you enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Christmas Gift&#8221; is a poem written by my husband. He wrote it 25 years ago, I guess it&#8217;s time he put it out there, eh? It&#8217;s an adorable story that explains how it was that Santa Claus came to be. In a way that you would probably not expect! I did the illustrations for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormwoodqueen.com\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormwoodqueen.com\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormwoodqueen.com\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormwoodqueen.com\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormwoodqueen.com\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormwoodqueen.com\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":704,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormwoodqueen.com\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormwoodqueen.com\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormwoodqueen.com\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormwoodqueen.com\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}