{"id":1432,"date":"2013-12-24T13:50:12","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T20:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2013-12-24T13:50:12","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T20:50:12","slug":"christmas-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/24\/christmas-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas = Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The best Christmas memories are those that include family.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Last year the Reese clan gathered at Carolyn&#8217;s son David&#8217;s home. A huge Christmas tree filled with gifts greeted everyone when they arrived.<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/christmas-family\/attachment\/reese-christmas-tree\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1437\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1437\" alt=\"Reese Christmas Tree\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reese-Christmas-Tree.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"920\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Carolyn was surrounded by generations of her family; her children, her grandchildren, and her great-grandchildren.<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/christmas-family\/attachment\/christmas-2012\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1434\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1434\" alt=\"Christmas 2012\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Christmas-2012.jpg\" width=\"756\" height=\"609\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/a-birthday-wish\/\">Carolyn&#8217;s sister Glenda<\/a> was even there to join in the festivities.<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/christmas-family\/attachment\/carolyn-and-glenda-christmas-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1435\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1435\" alt=\"Carolyn and Glenda Christmas\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Carolyn-and-Glenda-Christmas1.jpg\" width=\"743\" height=\"655\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Matt and Jen were having fun (this was a month before <a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/true-love-an-engagement-and-road\/\">Matt proposed to Jen at Road 2013<\/a>)<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/christmas-family\/attachment\/matt-and-jen-christmas-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1439\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1439\" alt=\"Matt and Jen Christmas\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Matt-and-Jen-Christmas1.jpg\" width=\"491\" height=\"545\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>A Reese family tradition is having Santa come to surprise the kids. Last year, Dave wore the suit that his mother made years ago.<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/christmas-family\/attachment\/reese-family-christmas-santa-suit\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1438\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1438\" alt=\"Reese Family Christmas-Santa Suit\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reese-Family-Christmas-Santa-Suit.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"596\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>This year, the Reese family is spread out for Christmas. But no matter where they celebrate, you know they are close in heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Wishing you a Christmas surrounded by those you hold dear.<\/p>\n\n]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,32],"tags":[248,404,1157],"class_list":["post-1432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-road-to-california","tag-christmas","tag-family","tag-santa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Reese-Family-Christmas-Santa-Suit.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}