{"id":1824,"date":"2008-12-20T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2008-12-19T15:01:39","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T21:01:39","slug":"merry-and-bright-by-country-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/merry-and-bright-by-country-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry and Bright by Country Living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/216.125.140.44\/uhtbin\/cgisirsi\/x\/0\/0\/57\/5?searchdata1=ocm76792078&amp;user_id=davmainweb\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1825 alignleft\" title=\"merry-and-bright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/merry-and-bright.jpg?resize=240%2C240&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/merry-and-bright.jpg?w=240&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/merry-and-bright.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>Just paging through <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/216.125.140.44\/uhtbin\/cgisirsi\/x\/0\/0\/57\/5?searchdata1=ocm76792078&amp;user_id=davmainweb\" target=\"_blank\">Merry and Bright<\/a><\/strong><\/em> will put you in the holiday spirit. Full of ideas on how to brighten your holiday, there&#8217;s something for everyone from crafts to recipes to decking the halls.<\/p>\n<p>As you would expect from Country Living, the emphasis here is on the simple and homey. Most of the projects can be accomplished with things you have on hand already &#8211; buttons, ribbons, paper &#8211; and encourages you to dip into your collection of ornaments and holiday decorations and use them in new ways.<\/p>\n<p>Beautifully photographed, most of the ideas are quick to finish and yield big results. Antiques, collectibles, nature and tradition mix with the new ideas for an old-fashioned Christmas with a fresh, bright look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just paging through Merry and Bright will put you in the holiday spirit. Full of ideas on how to brighten your holiday, there&#8217;s something for everyone from crafts to recipes to decking the halls. As you would expect from Country Living, the emphasis here is on the simple and homey.<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/merry-and-bright-by-country-living\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[351,356,355,324],"class_list":["post-1824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-christmas","tag-country","tag-decorating","tag-holidays"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-tq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1824"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1932,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions\/1932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}