{"id":283,"date":"2008-12-20T17:58:57","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T23:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whaleylife.com\/blog\/?p=283"},"modified":"2008-12-20T18:02:32","modified_gmt":"2008-12-21T00:02:32","slug":"tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whaleylife.com\/blog\/archives\/283","title":{"rendered":"Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.whaleylife.com\/photos\/d\/4110-1\/IMG_7118.JPG?resize=400%2C266\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.whaleylife.com\/photos\/d\/4105-1\/IMG_7112.JPG?resize=400%2C266\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While this is a tradition I tend to keep for a long time, it is more fun when someone else is in charge. It requires <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whaleylife.com\/blog\/archives\/194\">baking cookies<\/a>, making icing, setting up table, 30 minutes of interest from kids, then the clean up process. All of that was better when I was the kid and left the other responsibilities to Mom and Ann. But someone has to do it, right?<\/p>\n<p>The girls did good this year, and both of them really enjoyed it. Megan ended up with sprinkles, icing and goldfish for lunch, but totally worth it. There is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whaleylife.com\/video\/Cookies08.mov\">video<\/a> if you want to see the experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While this is a tradition I tend to keep for a long time, it is more fun when someone else is in charge. It requires baking cookies, making icing, setting up table, 30 minutes of interest from kids, then the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whaleylife.com\/blog\/archives\/283\">Continue reading <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":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qUqt-4z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whaleylife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whaleylife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whaleylife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whaleylife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whaleylife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whaleylife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whaleylife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whaleylife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whaleylife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}