{"id":366,"date":"2007-01-01T09:08:01","date_gmt":"2007-01-01T16:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/?p=366"},"modified":"2007-01-01T09:08:01","modified_gmt":"2007-01-01T16:08:01","slug":"2007-lets-light-this-candle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/?p=366","title":{"rendered":"2007 &#8211; Let&#8217;s Light This Candle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past two years I&#8217;ve had my own private Festival of Lights on the eve&#8217;s of Christmas and the New Year. That makes it a tradition. And it&#8217;s one of my own making. Building a new life, it turns out, rests on paying attention to the little things and building from there. Here are a few pictures from last night&#8217;s festival. In all, there were 68 candles this year. There were more last year, but this year I hadn&#8217;t bothered to find lamp oil for the oil candles. The music for the hours leading up to midnight: Eva Cassidy and Keola Beamer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image367\" src=\"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/dsc00883_jz_50.jpg\" alt=\"Table Center Piece\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The tree is lit by magical Festival of Lights fairies. Either that or electricity, I can never remember which.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image368\" src=\"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/dsc00881_jz_50.jpg\" alt=\"Sideboard\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Music and candlelight. Together, they make something much more than just the parts.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image369\" src=\"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/dsc00887_jz_50.jpg\" alt=\"Music\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even the bearded lady shows well in candlelight. About as well as she does in bright sunlight.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image370\" src=\"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/dsc00900_jz_50.jpg\" alt=\"Jasmine\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The wine was a bottle of a favorite I&#8217;d been holding for a while &#8211; Turnbull Merlot, 2003. It was excellent.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image371\" src=\"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/dsc00890_jz_50.jpg\" alt=\"Turnbull Merlot\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All set, the evening was spent thinking, remembering, planning and writing. I&#8217;m ready for 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past two years I&#8217;ve had my own private Festival of Lights on the eve&#8217;s of Christmas and the New Year. That makes it a tradition. And it&#8217;s one of my own making. Building a new life, it turns out, rests on paying attention to the little things and building from there. Here are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}