{"id":786,"date":"2010-01-11T16:53:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T00:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/?p=786"},"modified":"2011-11-13T22:44:57","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T06:44:57","slug":"christmas-2009-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/?p=786","title":{"rendered":"Christmas 2009, OKC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Christmas adventure this year began in Oklahoma City, where we visited my sister Eileen&#8217;s family.  The week started off with a Christmas Eve record snowfall of over 12&#8243; that triggered an Oklahoma state of emergency, an unplanned overnight stay for my Uncle Mike and Aunt Lou Ann, and&nbsp;lots of fun snowplay for the five girls under 11 in the house.  Other highlights include cooking, presents, movie nights, volunteering at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regionalfoodbank.org\/\">local Food Bank<\/a> where we packed bags and bags of frozen cauliflower, and Santa&#8217;s unexpected gift of Christmas the cat.  Click on the family group shot below for a slideshow.  My sister Eileen did a <a href=\"http:\/\/animoto.com\/play\/Hb1LtkcNW9EyryhU1UOTWg?utm_campaign=share_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=share_email\">cool video<\/a> of the week as well.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"toggleborder\" title=\"slideshow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/22311334@N00\/sets\/72157623191811248\/show\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2713\/4267628520_7a7bf78071_m.jpg?resize=240%2C171\" alt=\"The whole family at Christmas 2009 in Oklahoma\" width=\"240\" height=\"171\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Christmas adventure this year began in Oklahoma City, where we visited my sister Eileen&#8217;s family. The week started off with a Christmas Eve record snowfall of over 12&#8243; that triggered an Oklahoma state of emergency, an unplanned overnight stay for my Uncle Mike and Aunt Lou Ann, and&nbsp;lots of fun snowplay for the five &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/?p=786\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christmas 2009, OKC<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,5,6,10,12,20,22,24,27,29,32,35,36,37],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aunt-eileen","tag-aunt-lou-ann","tag-aunt-mona","tag-christmas","tag-claire","tag-juliet","tag-nana","tag-poppa","tag-sara","tag-sophie","tag-susan","tag-travel","tag-uncle-abbas","tag-uncle-mike"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5eQE-cG","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1434,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions\/1434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}