{"id":356,"date":"2012-12-24T17:05:48","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T00:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=356"},"modified":"2012-12-24T17:05:48","modified_gmt":"2012-12-25T00:05:48","slug":"wishing-you-a-very-merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/24\/wishing-you-a-very-merry-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Wishing You A Very Merry Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[\n\n<p>Christmas Eve finds the Reese extended family gathered together to share their family&#8217;s traditions. \u00a0This year, Carolyn, her sons and their families (which includes Carolyn&#8217;s four great-grandchildren) are gathering at son Dave&#8217;s home.\u00a0Included\u00a0in the annual festivities is a visit from Santa Claus. Many years ago, Carolyn created the Reese family Santa Suit. \u00a0It has been worn by her sons and grandson to the delight of young and old. Carolyn learned to sew at 8 years of age under the guidance of her grandmother. \u00a0Years later, Carolyn perfected her sewing skills working for May Co. in Lakewood, California. Her specialty in alterations provided the perfect experience needed to put together an authentic Santa Suit. In 2010, grandson Matt wore the suit. Here he is entertaining Carolyn&#8217;s great-grandson K.J. and K.J.&#8217;s mom, Carie: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/wishing-you-a-very-merry-christmas\/attachment\/santa-suit-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-357\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-357\" alt=\"Santa suit 3\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Santa-suit-3-300x222.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>All of the Reese family join together to wish you a very Merry Christmas. \u00a0We are looking forward to seeing you in the New Year at Road to California.\u00a0<\/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":0,"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":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-road-to-california"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","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=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}