{"id":12687,"date":"2008-12-11T23:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T03:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/?p=12687"},"modified":"2008-12-11T23:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T03:47:00","slug":"12687","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/12687\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">Holiday radio<\/span> is something I need to address. It is a never ending emotional <span style=\"font-size: 180%;\"><strong>rollercoaster<\/strong><\/span> for me. It is <em><span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">so<\/span><\/em> touching. I <strong><span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">LOVE<\/span><\/strong> it so much. Yet, I am constantly on the verge of <span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">tears <\/span>while I listen as they grant someone <span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">Christmas<\/span> who just had a bone transplant, lost their family in a <span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">Tornado<\/span>, and feeds the homeless between <span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">Chemo<\/span> treatments. <strong>Then<\/strong> <em><span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">Christmas Shoes<\/span><\/em> comes on and <strong>it&#8217;s all over<\/strong>. I am literally bawling on the freeway <span style=\"font-size: 180%;\"><strong>100%<\/strong><\/span> of the time these days. I can&#8217;t turn it off either. <span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">No way.<\/span> I have to keep listening. The <span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">miraculous<\/span> giving stories are so motivating. But let me tell you, it&#8217;s <strong>an emotional <span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">rollercoaster<\/span><\/strong>. And I cringe when they say, &#8220;<em>Will you be someone&#8217;s Christmas <span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">Miracle<\/span>?<\/em>&#8221; because you just want to pull over and write a <span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">check<\/span> for your entire bank account and then you feel <span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">guilty<\/span> because you didn&#8217;t. Bottom line: Christmas radio is not for the <span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">fainthearted<\/span>. You&#8217;ve got to have your game face on when you turn that dial. So if you see me on the road bawling, it has <span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">nothing <\/span>to do with my current emotional state. My life is <em><span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">completely<\/span><\/em> fine. It&#8217;s just the <span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">radio <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 100%;\">and I&#8217;m contemplating giving away the entire <span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">farm<\/span>. <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holiday radio is something I need to address. It is a never ending emotional rollercoaster for me. It is so touching. I LOVE it so much. Yet, I am constantly on the verge of tears while I listen as they grant someone Christmas who just had a bone transplant, lost their family in a Tornado, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1051],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays-parties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}