{"id":92,"date":"2007-11-26T00:25:55","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T07:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/?p=92"},"modified":"2007-11-26T00:25:55","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T07:25:55","slug":"thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"toggleborder\" title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/22311334@N00\/2064367947\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-top: 5px; float: right; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2400\/2064367947_3d25194d29_t.jpg?resize=100%2C100\" alt=\"Photo of Claire in a very cute red dress\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>We just returned from a five-day Thanksgiving trip to Oklahoma, where we visited my sister Eileen, her husband Abbas, their daughters Sara, Sophie and Susan, Abbas&#8217;s sister Hediyeh, my sister Mona, and my Uncle Mike and Aunt Lou Ann. We enjoyed exploring the new house Eileen and Abbas just built, cooked a lot of food in their deluxe kitchen, watched a few movies, ate dinner out at a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ranchsteakhouse.com\/\">great steakhouse<\/a>, and even visited a fascinating exhibit called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourbodytheuniversewithin.com\/\">Our Body: The Universe Within<\/a>. We missed my parents, who couldn&#8217;t join us at the last minute, but thought of them often. Click on the photo below for a slideshow of pictures from Abbas and us.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"toggleborder\" title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/22311334@N00\/sets\/72157603299133777\/show\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2248\/2065099956_5500a580bb_m.jpg?resize=192%2C240\" alt=\"Thanksgiving photo of the whole family\" width=\"192\" height=\"240\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also, here&#8217;s a 90-second video of Claire in Oklahoma practicing her conversation skills, including gurgling, finger-chewing, and laughter-induced hiccups. Click on the triangle &#8220;Play&#8221; button in the image below to start the video.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/X0TXR63PVik&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xd6d6d6&amp;color2=0xf0f0f0&amp;border=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/X0TXR63PVik&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xd6d6d6&amp;color2=0xf0f0f0&amp;border=0\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just returned from a five-day Thanksgiving trip to Oklahoma, where we visited my sister Eileen, her husband Abbas, their daughters Sara, Sophie and Susan, Abbas&#8217;s sister Hediyeh, my sister Mona, and my Uncle Mike and Aunt Lou Ann. We enjoyed exploring the new house Eileen and Abbas just built, cooked a lot of food &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/?p=92\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thanksgiving 2007<\/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":{"_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":[3,5,6,12,27,29,32,33,36,37,39],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aunt-eileen","tag-aunt-lou-ann","tag-aunt-mona","tag-claire","tag-sara","tag-sophie","tag-susan","tag-thanksgiving","tag-uncle-abbas","tag-uncle-mike","tag-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5eQE-1u","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","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=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}