{"id":18746,"date":"2023-12-24T00:25:50","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T08:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/?p=18746"},"modified":"2023-12-23T15:49:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T23:49:12","slug":"a-gathering-of-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/?p=18746","title":{"rendered":"A Gathering of Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17974\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/?attachment_id=17974\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17974\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17974\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17974\" src=\"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/nk1704_ulla_model__38-scaled-e1699565989338.jpg\" alt=\"Bird of Virtue proprietor Linnea Oliver smiles as she opens an iron gate.\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17974\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo courtesy of Icarian Photography, and used with permission.)<\/p><\/div>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-18746-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/Linnea_Oliver_Christmas_memory.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/Linnea_Oliver_Christmas_memory.mp3\">https:\/\/noelophile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/Linnea_Oliver_Christmas_memory.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>One of the best parts of Christmas, is getting to celebrate it with the people who mean most in our lives.<\/p>\n<p>Artist Linnea Oliver remembers such gatherings.<\/p>\n<p>Linnea, who is the proprietor of Bay Area-based business <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdofvirtue.com\/\">Bird of Virtue<\/a>, designs and handcrafts unique jewelry, inspired by her Nordic heritage, vintage design and the geometric shapes and patterns of daily life.<\/p>\n<p>Since <a href=\"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/?p=17973\">our earlier interview<\/a>, Linnea has created a new line of Christmas tree earrings, as well as a number of designs, for both men and women, with clean lines and an elegant simplicity.<\/p>\n<p>Here, Linnea shares a favorite Christmas memory.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best parts of Christmas, is getting to celebrate it with the people who mean most in our lives. Artist Linnea Oliver remembers such gatherings. Linnea, who is the proprietor of Bay Area-based business Bird of Virtue, designs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/?p=18746\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2331,47,2332],"class_list":["post-18746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-stories","tag-bird-of-virtue","tag-christmas-memories-2","tag-linnea-oliver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18746"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18750,"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18746\/revisions\/18750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}