{"id":3291,"date":"2009-11-04T23:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T23:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress2\/a-christmas-to-remember\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T03:25:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T03:25:23","slug":"a-christmas-to-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/a-christmas-to-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas to Remember"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_57\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/christmasto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/christmasto.jpg\" alt=\"christmasto\" width=\"310\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/christmasto.jpg 310w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/christmasto-105x150.jpg 105w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/christmasto-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 310px) 85vw, 310px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-57\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">click for more info<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was satisfying to write a short story about my character Anya from <strong><em>Prisoners in the Promised Land<\/em><\/strong> for this Dear Canada Christmas anthology. Lots of great stories in this collection. In addition to my own, there are two by Jean Little, one from Carol Matas, Karleen Bradford, two from Maxine Trottier, two by Julie Lawson, one from Sarah Ellis and one from Perry Nodelman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was satisfying to write a short story about my character Anya from Prisoners in the Promised Land for this Dear Canada Christmas anthology. Lots of great stories in this collection. In addition to my own, there are two by Jean Little, one from Carol Matas, Karleen Bradford, two from Maxine Trottier, two by Julie &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/a-christmas-to-remember\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Christmas to Remember&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[426,1],"tags":[1054],"class_list":["post-3291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-books","category-uncategorized","tag-a-christmas-to-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6229,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291\/revisions\/6229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}