{"id":22104,"date":"2016-01-04T23:49:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T15:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=22104"},"modified":"2016-01-05T00:16:51","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T16:16:51","slug":"the-monkey-is-approaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=22104","title":{"rendered":"The Monkey is approaching!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I hear the shops playing Chinese New Year songs,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>While lively jingle bells\u00a0is still playing;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>I hear the distant sounds of breaking branches,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And realize the <em><span style=\"color: #333399\">Monkey<\/span><\/em> is fast <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">approaching<\/span><\/strong><strong>!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Chinese New Year spirit is in the air,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And shops are selling Chinese New Year <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">d\u00e9cor<\/span>;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Christmas tree has been safely put away &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Time to buy rhyming couplets for the <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">door<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chinese New Year<\/strong> <strong>goodies are already on sale<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>They are quite expensive \u2013 shall I go <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">JB<\/span>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>May be I could bake my signature Marie cake &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But wait! I think I have lost the <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">recipe<\/span>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The incumbent <em><span style=\"color: #008000\">Goat<\/span><\/em> is ready to exit,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>While the Chinese New Year countdown goes <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">on<\/span>;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The happy <em><span style=\"color: #333399\">Monkey<\/span><\/em> will soon make his entrance,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>While we look forward \u00a0to more babies <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">born<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/monkey-playing-vine-plant-illsutration-31911328.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22106\" src=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/monkey-playing-vine-plant-illsutration-31911328-133x100.jpg\" alt=\"monkey-playing-vine-plant-illsutration-31911328\" width=\"133\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/strong>The Monkey is approaching!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Happy preparation for the CNY!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hear the shops playing Chinese New Year songs, While lively jingle bells\u00a0is still playing; I hear the distant sounds of breaking branches, And realize the Monkey is fast approaching! The Chinese New Year spirit is in the air, And shops are selling Chinese New Year d\u00e9cor; The Christmas tree has been safely put away &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=22104\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Monkey is approaching!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":760,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[373],"class_list":["post-22104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-cny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/760"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22104"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22112,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22104\/revisions\/22112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}