{"id":991,"date":"2012-11-24T06:10:21","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T11:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=991"},"modified":"2012-11-24T06:10:21","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T11:10:21","slug":"being-thankful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=991","title":{"rendered":"Being Thankful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanksgiving has come and gone.\u00c2\u00a0 I love opportunities to have lots of good food.\u00c2\u00a0 I also love opportunities to reflect, and being thankful is something I have consciously been trying to remember.\u00c2\u00a0 It is so easy to get caught up in life and the busyness of each day and school, work, activities, obligations.\u00c2\u00a0 But to actually pause, be in the moment, and appreciate those we love is truly a gift.<\/p>\n<p>We have two Thanksgivings- one at each of our parents&#8217; houses.\u00c2\u00a0 It is the return of how each of us grew up.\u00c2\u00a0 Speaking for myself it is such a throwback.\u00c2\u00a0 Except Tracy doesn&#8217;t cry over having to eat turkey- she makes her own steak on the grill.\u00c2\u00a0 The kids love it too.<\/p>\n<p>We are lucky and blessed with lots of good people in our lives, good jobs and our health.\u00c2\u00a0 I hope I remember this each day.\u00c2\u00a0 Every day is a day to be thankful.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/532173_10151231023635983_2053547589_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-992\" title=\"532173_10151231023635983_2053547589_n\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/532173_10151231023635983_2053547589_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/532173_10151231023635983_2053547589_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/532173_10151231023635983_2053547589_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Thankful for the best boys<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanksgiving has come and gone.\u00c2\u00a0 I love opportunities to have lots of good food.\u00c2\u00a0 I also love opportunities to reflect, and being thankful is something I have consciously been trying to remember.\u00c2\u00a0 It is so easy to get caught up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=991\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":995,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions\/995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}