{"id":1128,"date":"2006-12-14T07:14:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-14T07:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog2\/2006\/12\/lights-nat-action\/"},"modified":"2006-12-14T07:14:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-14T07:14:00","slug":"lights-nat-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/lights-nat-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Lights, Nat, Action!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Turn on your love light<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Let it shine on me<\/span><br \/>&#8211;PigPen, GFD<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Close up of cheery, twinkling Christmas lights.  Camera pans from lights to inside Batchelder\/Senator family dining room.  Three laptops open, cereal boxes and cereal crumbs strewn across large black dining room table.  Empty coffee cups sit, open-mouthed and drying.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Enter Nat, pacing quickly from dining room window in back to row of windows, and back again, like a caged tiger:<\/p>\n<p><\/span>&#8220;Want the lights to go off!!&#8221;<br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Close up of Ned, sleep-rumpled hair standing up, glasses off, black sweatpants on:<\/span>  &#8220;Natty, everyone has lights on.  They are Christmas lights.  We&#8217;re going to put our menorah up today, too!&#8221;<br \/>Nat:  &#8220;Nat will turn lights off!&#8221;<br \/>Ned:  &#8220;Natty, we can&#8217;t.  Should we go see the lights?&#8221;<br \/>Nat:  &#8220;Daddy will hug me.&#8221;<br \/>[Hugging, back-thumping, back-scratching]<br \/>Ned, to me:  &#8220;Getting  alot of hugs here!&#8221;   <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Close up of me, pink striped pajama bottoms, black top, hunched over computer, smiling worriedly.<\/span><br \/>[Nat scans the dining room window]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Lights go off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Natty what happened?&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;Lights are off.&#8221;<br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Exit Nat.<br \/>Silly talk resumes.  All is well in the state of Denmark and Massachusetts.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turn on your love lightLet it shine on me&#8211;PigPen, GFD Close up of cheery, twinkling Christmas lights. Camera pans from lights to inside Batchelder\/Senator family dining room. Three laptops open, cereal boxes and cereal crumbs strewn across large black dining room table. Empty coffee cups sit, open-mouthed and drying. Enter Nat, pacing quickly from dining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSTth-ic","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}