{"id":5670,"date":"2013-12-24T21:18:50","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T05:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/?p=5670"},"modified":"2019-04-20T10:37:30","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T18:37:30","slug":"christmas-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/christmas-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>December 25, 2013<\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s Christmas at last.\u00a0 But this year our Christmas is modest and not as abundant as in previous years.\u00a0 Dad was laid-off from his job several times in the last years so we&#8217;re trying to live more frugally.\u00a0 Yet, somehow, Dad has managed to keep my ballet classes going for me because it&#8217;s important to me and he knows that.\u00a0 It must be important to him as well.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5686\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5686\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/XMas_2013-e1461514923924.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5686 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/XMas_2013-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"Merry Christmas to all...\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Merry Christmas to all&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We enjoy our Christmas because of the little things that friends and family do for us&#8230; including this sweet Christmas card hand-made by one of the little dancers at Pacific Ballet Academy&#8230;just for me!<\/p>\n<p>This is Christmas enough for us!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5709\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5709\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DaCuz-e1461514862848.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5709 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DaCuz-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"Da Cuz\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5709\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Da Cuz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5695\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5695\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ChristmasHike-e1461514901192.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5695 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ChristmasHike-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Hike\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5695\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christmas Hike<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Visiting with May Auntie and her son Cousin Justin and looking back 13 years before!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"765\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DaCuz-765x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Da Cuz\" data-id=\"5709\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/?attachment_id=5709\" class=\"wp-image-5709\"\/><figcaption>Da Cuz<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/2013-12-25-17.49.34-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Cousin Justin\" data-id=\"5696\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/?attachment_id=5696\" class=\"wp-image-5696\"\/><figcaption>Cousin Justin<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/baby010-e1461514850693.jpg\" alt=\"13 Years Ago\" data-id=\"5713\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/?attachment_id=5713\" class=\"wp-image-5713\"\/><figcaption>13 Years Ago<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 25, 2013 It&#8217;s Christmas at last.\u00a0 But this year our Christmas is modest and not as abundant as in previous years.\u00a0 Dad was laid-off from his job several times in the last years so we&#8217;re trying to live more frugally.\u00a0 Yet, somehow, Dad has managed to keep my ballet classes going for me because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/christmas-2013\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christmas 2013<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[170],"class_list":["post-5670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","tag-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5670"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8091,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670\/revisions\/8091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}