{"id":10203,"date":"2014-12-25T15:52:46","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T20:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fredjdevito.com\/streetscene\/?p=10203"},"modified":"2022-09-18T12:21:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T16:21:48","slug":"the-night-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fredjdevito.com\/streetscene\/the-night-before\/","title":{"rendered":"The Night Before"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nScene: Christina Osburn and Paul O\u2019Connor, next photo, at their home. In the country and around the bend to their Holiday Party we went. Neighbors and friends gathered together\u00a0and toasted the season on Christmas Eve. Christina\u00a0is an Art Teacher and Artist<\/a>. At the gathering there were actors, builders, carpenters,\u00a0engineers,\u00a0teachers, and others.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>Scene: Paul\u00a0is Technical D<\/a>irector<\/a>\u00a0and Set Designer\u00a0for the Drama Department at Vassar College.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>Scene:\u00a0Jim, Billy, Kathy\u00a0and Rachel. The invitation that Kathy is holding was hand crafted by Christina.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>Scene: Cheerful\u00a0Kathee, Dave, and Terri.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>Scene: Nancy and Kathy loving their moment.<\/p>\n

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\nScene: Marty, Mario, Josh and Paul sitting around the work table, in Paul\u2019s amazingly equipped and self-constructed workshop. Paul also built a studio for Christina on their property.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>Scene: Mario who lives down the hill near the river.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>Scene: Josh with his device sharing a photo of him and Aya.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>Scene: Marty who lives next door.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>Scene: Paul and their wonderful dog Cali in the kitchen.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>Scene:\u00a0Jim and Kathy smiling.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>Scene: Kathy and Debbie embracing the season\u2019s spirit.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>Scene: Paula and Fred, wine makers and\u00a0owners of Cerrighino-Smith. Fred is also from the band Television<\/a>, in the link that\u2019s him on the right in the vintage newspaper ad for the East Village Eye. They will be performing at Irving Place in NYC on Sunday, December 28th. Then off to the Theater of the Living Arts in\u00a0Philadelphia, PA, and then to The Stoney Pony in Asbury Park, NJ.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>Scene: Fred watches Christina as she strums along to\u00a0Dick Dale<\/a>, 60\u2019s surfer music, which was streaming at the party.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>Scene:\u00a0Veronica enters the scene<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>Scene: Rachel makes a move.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>Scene: Billy watches Christina as she makes a calculated advance.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>Scene: That\u2019s me enjoying the moment.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>Scene: Cali sensing something in the air.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>Scene:\u00a0\u201cWhen out on the lawn there arose such a clatter. \u00a0Away to the window we flew like a flash.\u00a0The moon on the new fallen snow.\u00a0When, what to our wondering eyes should appear,\u00a0but a sleigh, and nine reindeer. We knew in a moment it must be Saint Nick. On the roof, the prancing of each little hoof. Santa sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,\u00a0and away they all flew.\u00a0But we heard him exclaim, Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Paraphrased from\u00a0Clement Clarke Moore\u2019s The Night Before Christmas.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scene: Christina Osburn and Paul O\u2019Connor, next photo, at their home. In the country and around the bend to their Holiday Party we went. Neighbors and friends gathered together\u00a0and toasted the season on Christmas Eve. Christina\u00a0is an Art Teacher and Artist. At the gathering there were actors, builders, carpenters,\u00a0engineers,\u00a0teachers, and others. Scene: Paul\u00a0is Technical Director\u00a0and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[25,15,26,21,94,23],"tags":[552,188,557,31,555,32,738,33,22,553,739,96,554,556],"class_list":["post-10203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-events","category-music","category-new-york-city","category-out-of-town","category-personal-style","tag-christina-osburn","tag-christmas","tag-clement-clarke-moores-the-night-before-christmas","tag-fashion-and-culture-blog","tag-fred-smith","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-paul-oconnor","tag-personal-style","tag-street-style","tag-television","tag-vassar"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Jszn-2Ez","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredjdevito.com\/streetscene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredjdevito.com\/streetscene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredjdevito.com\/streetscene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredjdevito.com\/streetscene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredjdevito.com\/streetscene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10203"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/fredjdevito.com\/streetscene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22837,"href":"https:\/\/fredjdevito.com\/streetscene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10203\/revisions\/22837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredjdevito.com\/streetscene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredjdevito.com\/streetscene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredjdevito.com\/streetscene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}