{"id":126,"date":"2011-11-26T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.petitefreespirit.com\/2011\/11\/home-for-the-holiday\/"},"modified":"2020-06-10T19:47:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T00:47:10","slug":"home-for-the-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/26\/home-for-the-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Home for the holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P align=justify><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14px\" face=arial><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 85%\"><\/FONT><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 85%\"><\/FONT><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 85%\"><\/FONT>I decided to come home for the holiday to see family and friends after years of not coming home.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve tried to make a more concerted effort to see and talk to my family recently and thought this would be a good idea.&nbsp; Today I visited an aunt that I had not seen in years.&nbsp; During our visit, she asked if I would ever return home to live.&nbsp; Within a half second, I responded no.&nbsp; When I left almost 16 years ago, I knew that I would never return to live.&nbsp; Ever so often, I&#8217;ve romanticized the past so well that I return for a visit down memory lane.&nbsp; This is one of those times.&nbsp; In addition to where I grew up, I plan to also visit where I spent the summers with my grandmother.&nbsp; Once I reach the end of memory lane, I&#8217;ll return to where I currently live.<br \/>\n<P align=justify><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14px\" face=arial><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 85%\"><\/FONT><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 85%\"><\/FONT><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 85%\"><\/FONT>Although, one benefit from my visit with my aunt is that she reminded me about my talent for sewing and felt I wasn&#8217;t using my God-given gift.&nbsp; Maybe I should look into that&#8230;<br \/>\n<P align=justify><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14px\" face=arial><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 85%\"><\/FONT><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 85%\"><\/FONT><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 85%\"><\/FONT>Signing off to create The House of Petitefreespirit&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to come home for the holiday to see family and friends after years of not coming home.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve tried to make a more concerted effort to see and talk to my family recently and thought this would be a good idea.&nbsp; Today I visited an aunt that I had not seen in years.&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/26\/home-for-the-holiday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Home for the holiday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"pfspirit","author_link":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/author\/pfspirit\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"I decided to come home for the holiday to see family and friends after years of not coming home.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve tried to make a more concerted effort to see and talk to my family recently and thought this would be a good idea.&nbsp; Today I visited an aunt that I had not seen in years.&nbsp;&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":733,"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}