{"id":2817948,"date":"2017-12-31T14:39:07","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T18:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/?p=2817948"},"modified":"2017-12-31T14:39:07","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T18:39:07","slug":"merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2017\/12\/merry-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Christmas to all of my Kitoula.com visitors!\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2817491\" src=\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/sxmas_santasmiley_100-100.gif\" alt=\"Merry Christmas Santa Smiley\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/>\u00a0I can&#8217;t believe another year has past and I still (occasionally) keep up this blogging thing I started in August of 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the latest holiday family photo of me, Yianni and Rahbi.\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2817951 \" src=\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Xmas2017-2-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Xmas2017-2-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Xmas2017-2-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Xmas2017-2.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And yes, of course I made <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/2015\/12\/merry-christmas-kala-christougenna\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">koulouria<\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\">with Max and Ben.<\/span>\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #333333;\">Here&#8217;s some proof of that on my Instagram profile.\u00a0I spend more time on Instagram these days. I think that&#8217;s true for a lot of us. Be sure to follow me\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kitoula\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">there<\/a><\/span>!\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BdI0MgbHRBq\/\" data-instgrm-version=\"8\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 62.5% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\">\n<div style=\"background: url(data:image\/png; base64,ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaacwaaaascamaaaapwqozaaaabgdbtueaalgpc\/xhbqaaaafzukdcak7ohokaaaamuexurczmzpf399fx1+bm5mzy9amaaadisurbvdjlvzxbesmgces5\/p8\/t9furvcrmu73jwlzosgsiizurcjo\/ad+eqjjb4hv8bft+idpqocx1wjosbfhh2xssxeiyn3uli\/6mnree07uiwjev8ueowds88ly97kqytlijkktuybbruayvh5wohixmpi5we58ek028czwyuqdlkpg1bkb4nnm+veanfhqn1k4+gpt6ugqcvu2h2ovuif\/gwufyy8owepdyzsa3avcqpvovvzzz2vtnn2wu8qzvjddeto90gsy9mvlqtgysy231mxry6i2ggqjrty0l8fxcxfcbbhwrsyyaaaaaelftksuqmcc); display: block; height: 44px; margin: 0 auto -44px; position: relative; top: -22px; width: 44px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BdI0MgbHRBq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You are special today ? Merry Christmas! ????????????????<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A post shared by <a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kitoula\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> ?? ?? ? Kitoula ? ? ???? ?? ??<\/a> (@kitoula) on <time datetime=\"2017-12-25T19:56:41+00:00\">Dec 25, 2017 at 11:56am PST<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async defer src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I will try to capture some pics of our annual New Year&#8217;s Eve lobster dinner. Stay tuned.\u00a0I&#8217;m looking forward to sharing that with you.\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2817491\" src=\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/sxmas_santasmiley_100-100.gif\" alt=\"Merry Christmas Santa Smiley\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2817489\" src=\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/sxmas_tree_100-111.gif\" alt=\"Merry Christmas tree\" width=\"66\" height=\"66\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2817491\" src=\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/sxmas_santasmiley_100-100.gif\" alt=\"Merry Christmas Santa Smiley\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Christmas to all of my Kitoula.com visitors!\u00a0\u00a0I can&#8217;t believe another year has past and I still (occasionally) keep up this blogging thing I started in August of 2009. Here&#8217;s the latest holiday family photo of me, Yianni and Rahbi.\u00a0 And yes, of course I made koulouria\u00a0with Max and Ben.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s some proof of that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2017\/12\/merry-christmas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Merry Christmas<\/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":[226,401,531,18],"tags":[29,530,478],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Merry Christmas - Kitoula&#039;s Greek Food Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2017\/12\/merry-christmas\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Kitoula\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2017\/12\/merry-christmas\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2017\/12\/merry-christmas\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Kitoula\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/#\/schema\/person\/610affd2867fead5d767dc93895afcdf\"},\"headline\":\"Merry Christmas\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-12-31T18:39:07+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-12-31T18:39:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2017\/12\/merry-christmas\/\"},\"wordCount\":128,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/#\/schema\/person\/610affd2867fead5d767dc93895afcdf\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2017\/12\/merry-christmas\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/sxmas_santasmiley_100-100.gif\",\"keywords\":[\"Christmas\",\"Christmas cookies\",\"Merry Christmas\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Christmas cookies\",\"Food and Family\",\"Greek Recipes\",\"Recipes\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2017\/12\/merry-christmas\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2017\/12\/merry-christmas\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2017\/12\/merry-christmas\/\",\"name\":\"Merry Christmas - Kitoula&#039;s Greek Food Journal\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2017\/12\/merry-christmas\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2017\/12\/merry-christmas\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/sxmas_santasmiley_100-100.gif\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-12-31T18:39:07+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-12-31T18:39:07+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2017\/12\/merry-christmas\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2017\/12\/merry-christmas\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2017\/12\/merry-christmas\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/sxmas_santasmiley_100-100.gif\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/sxmas_santasmiley_100-100.gif\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2017\/12\/merry-christmas\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Merry Christmas\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/\",\"name\":\"Kitoula's Greek Food Journal\",\"description\":\"I&#039;m Greek. 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