{"id":61188,"date":"2025-12-11T21:14:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T02:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=61188"},"modified":"2026-07-29T12:54:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:54:19","slug":"timber-by-djk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=61188","title":{"rendered":"Timber! (by DJK)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summary:\u00a0 Oh, what fun there is on the Ponderosa at Christmas<br \/>\nRating:\u00a0 G\u00a0 (110 words)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>~*~*~ Bonanza<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Advent Calendar ~*~*~<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>* Day 11 &#8211; Advent Drabbles*<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Timber!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDamnation!\u201d\u00a0 Ben stared down at his sons sitting among the remains of the Christmas tree.\u00a0 \u201cAny bleeding? Sprains?\u00a0 Broken bones?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, Pa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen what in blazes happened?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdam grab Joe.\u00a0 Pull down tree.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMe&#8230; HE WAS CLIMBING IT!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Little Joe whimpered.\u00a0 Marie snatched the three-year-old from Adam\u2019s lap and hurried away.<\/p>\n<p>Ben pulled his older sons to their feet. \u201cExplain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe didn\u2019t let go.\u00a0 The tree came down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ben shook his head.\u00a0 \u201cGet it cleaned up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hoss unconsciously rubbed his backside; Adam did likewise.\u00a0 \u201cYet again, Little Joe misbehaves and ends up the only brother without a sore behind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Note:\u00a0 Day 11 of the 2025 Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar was open to any member to contribute anything they wished.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Link to the Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar \u2013 Day 11 &#8211; Drabble #2- <a href=\"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=61190\">In Loving Memory &#8211; DJK<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary:\u00a0 Oh, what fun there is on the Ponderosa at Christmas<br \/>\nRating:\u00a0 G\u00a0 (110 words)<br \/>\nWritten for the 2025 Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":5835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-full-width-post.php","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[4,30],"tags":[1062],"class_list":["post-61188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humor","category-prequels","tag-advent-calendar","wpcat-4-id","wpcat-30-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Christmas-Traditions.jpg?fit=639%2C480&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}