{"id":3725,"date":"2008-12-25T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2008-12-25T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/?p=3725"},"modified":"2013-12-25T07:29:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-25T15:29:48","slug":"merry-christmas-from-seattle-bubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/25\/merry-christmas-from-seattle-bubble\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas from Seattle Bubble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?f=1&#038;t=610\" title=\"Seattle's Real Estate Mascot: Crystal the Pink Pony\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/crystal-the-pink-pony.png\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000; margin: 5px 0pt 5px 5px; float: right;\" title=\"Seattle's Real Estate Mascot: Crystal the Pink Pony\" alt=\"Seattle's Real Estate Mascot: Crystal the Pink Pony\" height=\"300\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><b>A Visit from Hank Paulson<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro&#8217; the land<br \/>\nNot a creature was stirring, not even <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/22\/suzanne-researched-this-part-2\/\" title=\"Suzanne Researched This: Part 2\">Suzanne<\/a>;<\/p>\n<p>Bad mortgages hung by the treasury with care,<br \/>\nIn hopes that Hank Paulson soon would be there;<\/p>\n<p>The realtors were nestled all snug in their beds,<br \/>\nWhile visions of six percent danc&#8217;d in their heads&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No substantive post today.  For those that choose to stop by, enjoy this open thread, and this majestic photograph of Crystal, the pretty pink pony, <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?f=1&#038;t=610\" title=\"Pink Ponies?\">Seattle&#8217;s real estate mascot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas from Seattle Bubble!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Visit from Hank Paulson &#8216;Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro&#8217; the land Not a creature was stirring, not even Suzanne; Bad mortgages hung by the treasury with care, In hopes that Hank Paulson soon would be there; The realtors were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of six percent danc&#8217;d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":184,"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":[201],"tags":[43,609,194,152],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admin","tag-administrative","tag-christmas","tag-crystal","tag-pink-ponies"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Merry Christmas from Seattle Bubble \u2022 Seattle Bubble<\/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:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/25\/merry-christmas-from-seattle-bubble\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Merry Christmas from Seattle Bubble \u2022 Seattle Bubble\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"A Visit from Hank Paulson &#8216;Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro&#8217; 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