{"id":828,"date":"2009-11-30T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/a-christmas-gift\/"},"modified":"2013-07-10T21:17:41","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T02:17:41","slug":"a-christmas-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/a-christmas-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The theme for the 19th edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogcarnival.com\/bc\/cprof_4058.html\">Smile for the Camera<\/a> is:\u00a0 The Gift.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is the holiday season and a time for giving. So give Smile readers the gift of sharing, sharing a family photograph. It can be a gift given or received, it can be the gift of talent, it can be the gift of having the photograph itself. The interpretation of gift is yours. Admission is free with every photograph!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nWith all the Christmas craze, and people vying to get that perfect gift, I thought I\u2019d share a fun little story and photo.<\/p>\n<p>My dad was always a last-minute Christmas shopper\u2026not Black Friday for him.\u00a0 And by last-minute, I literally mean Christmas Eve.\u00a0 So, late on 24 December 1983, my dad went to Zayre to purchase the \u201cbig\u201d toy of the season, a Cabbage Patch Kid.\u00a0 He waited all night to get one.\u00a0 The photo below is me with Grandma Miller and the Cabbage Patch Kid I named Jill.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"ChristmasGift\" alt=\"ChristmasGift\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_udfzp1vLXt0\/SxQOFpRx5EI\/AAAAAAAAFL0\/Eje86pBo8_g\/ChristmasGift%5B6%5D.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"520\" height=\"430\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The theme for the 19th edition of Smile for the Camera is:\u00a0 The Gift. It is the holiday season and a time for giving. So give Smile readers the gift of sharing, sharing a family photograph. It can be a gift given or received, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[311,325],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genblog","tag-family-cahill","tag-family-muller-miller-prussia","cat-25-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-dm","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3875,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/3875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}