{"id":756,"date":"2019-01-03T18:44:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T00:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snaservices.com\/?p=756"},"modified":"2019-01-03T18:53:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T00:53:33","slug":"christmas-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snaservices.com\/index.php\/christmas-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas lights &#8211; 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So it has been a while since I posted anything. Rest assured nothing is wrong with me, I have just been busy over the holidays by which I mean Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone how knows me knows that during this time I am obsessively cleaning my yard of fall foliage and prepping it for winter and well, Christmas lights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My interest in Christmas lighting has been with me since I was a little child and well has only grown over the years. Now, it has blossomed into a large display &#8211; one that is peaceful and serene &#8211; not something flashy. This year, I had other elements to incorporate into my design as we are currently undergoing two bathroom rehabs so I could not resist decorating some temporary yard residents. After all, how else someone decorate a dumpster and a porta-potty. You can notice these elements begin to take affect through the different pictures below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below are some of the pictures I took of this years display. I try to not do the same thing multiple years and generally try to get more creative each year.  I usually end up spending between 20-36 man hours which includes getting the lights out, stringing them and putting them away when over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snaservices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20181211_171738.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-762\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snaservices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20181211_171719.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-761\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snaservices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20181209_173427.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-757\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snaservices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20181209_173451.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-758\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snaservices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20181211_171539.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-760\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it has been a while since I posted anything. Rest assured nothing is wrong with me, I have just been busy over the holidays by which I mean Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. Anyone how knows me knows that during this time I am obsessively cleaning my yard of fall foliage and prepping &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snaservices.com\/index.php\/christmas-lights\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christmas lights &#8211; 2018<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,86,85,7],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-lights","tag-holiday","tag-sean-moenkhoff","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snaservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snaservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snaservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snaservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snaservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.snaservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snaservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snaservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snaservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snaservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}