{"id":82,"date":"2008-12-07T21:57:28","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T01:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/?p=82"},"modified":"2008-12-22T00:10:34","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T04:10:34","slug":"christmas-2008-anticipation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/07\/christmas-2008-anticipation\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas 2008 Anticipation and Blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/video\/wordpress\/?p=127\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/takmad.smugmug.com\/photos\/432268850_ZCCyy-S.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"120\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>December has come and we have entered the Holiday season.\u00a0 After a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner with good friends, we prepared the house for Christmas.\u00a0 This is an exciting time in our home with 3 little kids.\u00a0 The love decorating the tree and enjoying the fireplace when the weather turns cold.\u00a0 Dad loves the real fireplace too as it brings back lots of memories of real fires on cold North Dakota nights.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve uploaded short video of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/video\/wordpress\/?p=127\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas tree decorating and warm fire video.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Pie\" src=\"http:\/\/www.evite.com\/gtimages\/N\/O\/A\/NOAJESKGODRFQAMYMWPX.jpg\" alt=\"Pie\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"right\" \/>A week ago we also held our annual Pie and Thanksgiving social.\u00a0 This is a special tradition of ours to invite our family friends from all walks of our life.\u00a0 We invited lost of people and had friends from the neighborhood, church, work and school come over for pie and a drink.\u00a0 About 50 people showed up and ate 14 pies over the course of 4 hours.\u00a0 At one point we had about 30 people in the house, men in the basement watching the Colts, women scattered around in small groups and about a dozen kids upstairs in the playroom.\u00a0 What a blessing to have so many friends and enjoy a low key afternoon together over dessert and drink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December has come and we have entered the Holiday season.\u00a0 After a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner with good friends, we prepared the house for Christmas.\u00a0 This is an exciting time in our home with 3 little kids.\u00a0 The love decorating the tree and enjoying the fireplace when the weather turns cold.\u00a0 Dad loves the real fireplace [&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":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82"}],"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=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}