{"id":43,"date":"2008-04-12T20:02:16","date_gmt":"2008-04-13T00:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/?p=43"},"modified":"2008-04-20T13:52:27","modified_gmt":"2008-04-20T17:52:27","slug":"emily-is-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/12\/emily-is-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily is 9!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/takmad.smugmug.com\/gallery\/4715510_EkPFy#279056273_JvsGw\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/takmad.smugmug.com\/photos\/279056273_JvsGw-Ti.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"100\" width=\"100\" \/><\/a>It has been 9 quick years since we were driven by the Quanbecks through the cobblestone roads of Antananarivo to the Poly Clinique d&#8217;Ilafy for Emily&#8217;s birth.\u00a0 Her birthday started with a sleepover with her neighbor friend Sarah Kate, only to awake to fresh Dunkin Donuts for breakfast (Thanks, Mom!).\u00a0 She joined another friend for a morning of laser tag &#8211; a great thrill for our maturing girl.<\/p>\n<p>We celebrated her birthday with a quiet family gathering in the afternoon, opening presents from the Grandparents and Mom &amp; Dad.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/takmad.smugmug.com\/gallery\/4715510_EkPFy#279056596_e2oCP\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/takmad.smugmug.com\/photos\/279056596_e2oCP-Ti.jpg\" align=\"right\" height=\"100\" width=\"100\" \/><\/a>Ice cream cake from Baskin Robbins was the highlight for her two little brothers.\u00a0 It always is!\u00a0 Next weekend is Emily&#8217;s kid birthday party with her friends.\u00a0 More photos are available on our <a href=\"http:\/\/takmad.smugmug.com\/gallery\/4715510_EkPFy#279056273_JvsGw\" target=\"_blank\">SmugMug site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/takmad.smugmug.com\/gallery\/4723885_zPifi#279662677_DhgGz\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/takmad.smugmug.com\/photos\/279662677_DhgGz-Ti.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"100\" width=\"100\" \/><\/a>Update<\/strong>: I&#8217;ve put together a slideshow of Emily through the years.\u00a0 You can see it <a href=\"http:\/\/takmad.smugmug.com\/gallery\/4723885_zPifi\/1#279662677_DhgGz\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update #2<\/strong>: Here are <a href=\"http:\/\/takmad.smugmug.com\/gallery\/4715510_EkPFy#282196349_2LS9c\" target=\"_blank\">some pics<\/a> from Emily&#8217;s birthday party with her friends.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/takmad.smugmug.com\/gallery\/4715510_EkPFy#282196349_2LS9c\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/takmad.smugmug.com\/photos\/282197590_y3LCN-Ti.jpg\" align=\"right\" height=\"100\" width=\"100\" \/><\/a>About 8 of girls gathered in an artist loft to make jewelry and paint figurines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been 9 quick years since we were driven by the Quanbecks through the cobblestone roads of Antananarivo to the Poly Clinique d&#8217;Ilafy for Emily&#8217;s birth.\u00a0 Her birthday started with a sleepover with her neighbor friend Sarah Kate, only to awake to fresh Dunkin Donuts for breakfast (Thanks, Mom!).\u00a0 She joined another friend for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}