{"id":69,"date":"2005-11-26T00:29:58","date_gmt":"2005-11-26T00:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westafer.com\/b\/wordpress\/?p=69"},"modified":"2005-11-26T00:29:58","modified_gmt":"2005-11-26T00:29:58","slug":"24_years_and_st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westafer.com\/b\/words\/2005\/11\/26\/24_years_and_st\/","title":{"rendered":"24 years and still Nut-crackin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow, I&#8217;m off to start my 24th year of Nutcracker. It has definitely coming down to putting on tights to keep the baby in diapers. I really hadn&#8217;t intended to dance anymore this season, but it obviously didn&#8217;t stick.<br \/>\nTam and I have had a great time visiting family and eating way too much food. Today&#8217;s big event was getting the family portrait with Saint Nick:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The fam with Santa\" src=\"http:\/\/www.westafer.com\/b\/archives\/tessWithSanta2.jpg\" width=\"532\" height=\"299\" \/><br \/>\nShe&#8217;s just irresistable, no? What you can&#8217;t see is the lady to our right jumping up and down, sounding a whistle, and flapping a crazy bird puppet to make Tess smile. Tess wasn&#8217;t unhappy, just tuckered out. I should have thought to take a picture of that lady, she was a pro!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow, I&#8217;m off to start my 24th year of Nutcracker. It has definitely coming down to putting on tights to keep the baby in diapers. I really hadn&#8217;t intended to dance anymore this season, but it obviously didn&#8217;t stick. Tam and I have had a great time visiting family and eating way too much food. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westafer.com\/b\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westafer.com\/b\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westafer.com\/b\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westafer.com\/b\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westafer.com\/b\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westafer.com\/b\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westafer.com\/b\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westafer.com\/b\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westafer.com\/b\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}