{"id":485,"date":"2007-11-03T10:42:58","date_gmt":"2007-11-03T17:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=485"},"modified":"2007-11-03T10:47:04","modified_gmt":"2007-11-03T17:47:04","slug":"christmas-is-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2007\/christmas-is-closer\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Is Closer"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have another “hint” of Christmas when this is about our place:<\/p>\n

\"Christmas<\/center><\/p>\n

Our landlord grows Christmas trees. They’re hauled out of the fields by helicopter. The drop-off area is right out our living room window. The picture above was taken about two hours ago. The helicopter pilot is getting his bearings before starting to haul trees.<\/p>\n

Here he comes in for his first landing here of the season:<\/p>\n

\"First<\/center><\/p>\n

Apparently he had to wait for the tree cutters to get enough done before he could start hauling. (That’s our back porch, our driveway, and a friend’s car.)<\/p>\n

OK, here comes the first load!<\/p>\n

\"First<\/center><\/p>\n

That’s shot through our living room window, as is this of him coming in for his first refueling:<\/p>\n

\"Coming<\/center><\/p>\n

And here’s a zoomed-in photo, also taken from our living room:<\/p>\n

\"Hop<\/center><\/p>\n

We’ll have some noisy days for several weeks now. But it’s very fascinating (and exciting and special) to watch.<\/p>\n

Helicopters are so neat.<\/p>\n

Oh, these guys are Panhandle Helicopter Inc (from Idaho). Safe flying, guys!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have another “hint” of Christmas when this is about our place: Our landlord grows Christmas trees. They’re hauled out of the fields by helicopter. The drop-off area is right out our living room window. The picture above was taken about two hours ago. The helicopter pilot is getting his bearings before starting to haul … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-7P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}