{"id":3084,"date":"2014-06-10T09:15:59","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T16:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=3084"},"modified":"2014-06-10T09:15:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T16:15:59","slug":"snapshots-from-a-family-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=3084","title":{"rendered":"Snapshots from a Family Reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weekends ago we flew to Dallas to celebrate my grandmother&#8217;s 90th birthday. It was a really nice celebration of her many achievements <em>and<\/em> a chance for our whole far-flung family to gather. Here&#8217;s nearly the whole clan on my mother&#8217;s side (thanks to my cousin Jessie for the photo):<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone wp-image-3085 size-medium\"><span><span><span><span><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3085 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_6647-450x309.jpg\" alt=\"reunion\" width=\"415\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_6647-450x309.jpg 450w, http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_6647-1024x704.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_6647.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And a couple of moments between second cousins (these both snapped by my cousin Pei):<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone wp-image-3086 size-medium\"><span><span><span><span><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3086 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/photo1-337x450.jpg\" alt=\"Robin and Calvin\" width=\"337\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/photo1-337x450.jpg 337w, http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/photo1-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone wp-image-3087 size-medium\"><span><span><span><span><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3087 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/photo-450x337.jpg\" alt=\"Sol and Harrison\" width=\"415\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/photo-450x337.jpg 450w, http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/photo-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Flying with three small children is not quite the ninth circle of hell, but easily the third or fourth. Still, I&#8217;m glad we had the chance to be part of such a special event. Many thanks to my mom and aunts for organizing the reunion, and to my grandmother for creating such a splendid family and living a life that inspires celebration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weekends ago we flew to Dallas to celebrate my grandmother&#8217;s 90th birthday. It was a really nice celebration of her many achievements and a chance for our whole far-flung family to gather. Here&#8217;s nearly the whole clan on my mother&#8217;s side (thanks to my cousin Jessie for the photo): And a couple of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3084"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3090,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084\/revisions\/3090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}