{"id":91888,"date":"2022-12-16T23:06:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T03:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=91888"},"modified":"2022-12-25T11:15:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T15:15:47","slug":"friday-night-a-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2022\/12\/16\/friday-night-a-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday night &#8211; a tree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We&#8217;re getting really excited for the kids visit this year. We haven&#8217;t all been in Vermont for the holidays since 2018 (I think) . DIane has been doing an amazing job getting the house ready and festive. One thing in the plan is to get a christmas tree up and decorated before the kids visit .. so that was the main task for the day. First thing, though.. a quick hike up to teh Duxbury window in the fresh snow.. then a ride over to Puritans to pick out the perfect tree !\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"769\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"91890\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AC20EF56-03AF-4E49-9946-2AD24D5A86F9_1_105_c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-91890\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AC20EF56-03AF-4E49-9946-2AD24D5A86F9_1_105_c.jpeg 769w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AC20EF56-03AF-4E49-9946-2AD24D5A86F9_1_105_c.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AC20EF56-03AF-4E49-9946-2AD24D5A86F9_1_105_c.jpeg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 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This year we&#8217;re digging deep into all the ornaments we&#8217;ve collected over the years.\u00a0 \u00a0 This year we started with birds.\u00a0 Many on the tree this year haven&#8217;t been up since before Sam died.. It feels both good and sad to go through all of these. each ornament tells a story.. all three boys names on them.. brings back such good memories !<br \/><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n<p>nite all, note sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re getting really excited for the kids visit this year. We haven&#8217;t all been in Vermont for the holidays since 2018 (I think) . DIane has been doing an amazing job getting the house ready and festive. One thing in the plan is to get a christmas tree up and decorated before the kids visit &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2022\/12\/16\/friday-night-a-tree\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday night &#8211; a tree<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91909,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91888\/revisions\/91909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}