{"id":1444,"date":"2017-12-20T09:01:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T14:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/?p=1444"},"modified":"2017-07-19T01:02:10","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T05:02:10","slug":"a-very-olaf-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/2017\/12\/20\/a-very-olaf-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"A Very Olaf Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in my day, the most famous snowman in the world was Frosty.<\/p>\n<p>Well, move over, Frosty, there\u2019s a new snowman in town.<\/p>\n<p>Disney\u2019s <em>Frozen<\/em> movie came out in 2013, but its popularity shows no sign of waning. In fact, as far as the neighborhood Christmas decorations go, the movie\u2019s adorable snowman Olaf is even <em>gaining<\/em> in popularity.<\/p>\n<p>My youngest daughter was almost three when the movie came out. Not only have we watched the movie a bajillion times, but we are also the proud owners of Frozen dinnerware, a Frozen scooter, two Frozen water bottles, Frozen dress-up costumes, Frozen linens, a Frozen blanket, two Elsa dolls, an Olaf doll, Frozen watches, Frozen lip gloss and, from time to time, Frozen graham crackers.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing Olaf in the neighborhood is like welcoming an old friend home for the holidays.<br \/>\n<div id=\"kad-wp-gallery76\" class=\"kad-wp-gallery kad-light-wp-gallery clearfix kt-gallery-column-4 rowtight\"><div class=\"tcol-lg-3 tcol-md-3 tcol-sm-4 tcol-xs-6 tcol-ss-12 g_item\"><div class=\"grid_item kad_gallery_fade_in gallery_item\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Olaf4.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox\" class=\"lightboxhover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Olaf4.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"978\" alt=\"Olaf Inflatable\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Olaf4.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Olaf4-300x287.jpg 300w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Olaf4-768x734.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" class=\"light-dropshaddow\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tcol-lg-3 tcol-md-3 tcol-sm-4 tcol-xs-6 tcol-ss-12 g_item\"><div class=\"grid_item kad_gallery_fade_in gallery_item\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Olaf1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox\" class=\"lightboxhover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Olaf1.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"924\" alt=\"Olaf Inflatable\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Olaf1.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Olaf1-300x271.jpg 300w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Olaf1-768x693.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" class=\"light-dropshaddow\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tcol-lg-3 tcol-md-3 tcol-sm-4 tcol-xs-6 tcol-ss-12 g_item\"><div class=\"grid_item kad_gallery_fade_in gallery_item\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Olaf2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox\" class=\"lightboxhover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Olaf2.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1107\" alt=\"Olaf Inflatable\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Olaf2.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Olaf2-278x300.jpg 278w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Olaf2-768x830.jpg 768w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Olaf2-947x1024.jpg 947w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" class=\"light-dropshaddow\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tcol-lg-3 tcol-md-3 tcol-sm-4 tcol-xs-6 tcol-ss-12 g_item\"><div class=\"grid_item kad_gallery_fade_in gallery_item\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Olaf3.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox\" class=\"lightboxhover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Olaf3.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"936\" alt=\"Olaf Inflatable\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Olaf3.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Olaf3-300x274.jpg 300w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Olaf3-768x702.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" class=\"light-dropshaddow\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in my day, the most famous snowman in the world was Frosty. Well, move over, Frosty, there\u2019s a new snowman in town. Disney\u2019s Frozen movie came out in 2013, but its popularity shows no sign of waning. In fact, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/2017\/12\/20\/a-very-olaf-christmas\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,20,25,42],"tags":[29,12,26,9],"class_list":["post-1444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holidays","category-neighborhood","category-walkabout-wednesday","category-winter","tag-holidays","tag-neighborhood","tag-walkabout-wednesday","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1565,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions\/1565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}