{"id":31840,"date":"2019-12-31T21:32:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T04:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adoptedjoy.com\/?p=31840"},"modified":"2019-12-31T21:32:16","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T04:32:16","slug":"christmas-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/?p=31840","title":{"rendered":"Christmas 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover has-background-dim-10 has-pale-pink-background-color has-background-dim\" style=\"background-image:url(http:\/\/adoptedjoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191224_225133_1N1web.jpg);background-position:50% 33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This Christmas season has been another year of managing to celebrate the wondrous gift of Christ to the world in spite of various family members being ill, including myself. I could go on and on about how down I felt, not being able to play hostess adequately on Tuesday for our West End celebration, or decorate the house the way I would like to, or-or-or&#8230; but in the end none of that mattered anyway. All that mattered is that for a few precious hours, I had my whole family, including grand-baby and bonus fam, under my roof, and blessings and joy flowed freely. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I ended up going to Urgent Care first thing Christmas morning, and let&#8217;s all make sure to thank the medical teams that tirelessly work through holidays to help us when we&#8217;re sick! I certainly was grateful for their help that day!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As soon as I got home we jumped in the van and made our way to Grandma&#8217;s house for the annual Heidmann Christmas. More blessings, more joy. My few pictures here I have edited to reflect the feelings of warmth and love I hold as I treasure these memories.<\/p>\n\n\n\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Christmas season has been another year of managing to celebrate the wondrous gift of Christ to the world in spite of various family members being ill, including myself. I could go on and on about how down I felt, not being able to play hostess adequately on Tuesday for our West End celebration, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[628,43,274,275,86,3,121,266],"tags":[332,418,152,476,489],"class_list":["post-31840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adopted-joy","category-celebrations","category-christmas-holidays","category-christmas-catholic","category-christmas","category-family","category-fun","category-holidays","tag-celebrations","tag-christmas","tag-family-3","tag-fun","tag-gatherings","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31840"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31862,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31840\/revisions\/31862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}