{"id":350,"date":"2020-01-26T21:50:45","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T20:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcjones.com\/denise\/?page_id=350"},"modified":"2025-12-07T20:04:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T19:04:32","slug":"the-great-santa-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/mcjones.com\/denise\/random-photos\/the-great-santa-project\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Santa Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_709\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-709\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-709\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcjones.com\/denise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025_santa-scaled.jpg?resize=525%2C350\" alt=\"2025: Carcassonne, France\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcjones.com\/denise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025_santa-scaled.jpg?w=2560 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcjones.com\/denise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025_santa-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C200 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcjones.com\/denise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025_santa-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C683 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcjones.com\/denise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025_santa-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C512 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcjones.com\/denise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025_santa-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1025 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcjones.com\/denise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025_santa-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1367 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-709\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2025: Carcassonne, France<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Beginning way back in 1993, each Christmas we have visited Santa and taken a photo together. What began as a cute college student gag has become, decades later, a fascinating study of our (rapidly accelerating) aging process.<\/p>\n<p>First we&#8217;re young; then we&#8217;re young and fat; then we&#8217;re young and skinny; then we just get old. 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