{"id":106,"date":"2006-12-08T13:58:44","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T20:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/?p=106"},"modified":"2006-12-08T13:58:44","modified_gmt":"2006-12-08T20:58:44","slug":"st-nicholas-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"St. Nicholas Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;was two days ago.<\/p>\n<p>As is our custom, we had the tree decorated a couple weeks ago, and the kids found their presents under the tree in the morning.  But since school days are busy, we waited until after dinner and homework to open them.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"bottom\" alt=\"M gets what he wanted\" title=\"M gets what he wanted\" src=\"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/familypics\/blogpics\/stnick06\/coolgift.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"bottom\" alt=\"G opens small gift\" title=\"G opens small gift\" src=\"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/familypics\/blogpics\/stnick06\/actionshot.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And the boys open a gift from Uncle John:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" align=\"bottom\" alt=\"a new chess set is opened\" title=\"a new chess set is opened\" src=\"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/familypics\/blogpics\/stnick06\/chess.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and then they use the gift!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"395\" height=\"300\" align=\"bottom\" alt=\"three boys play chess\" title=\"three boys play chess\" src=\"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/familypics\/blogpics\/stnick06\/chessgame.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Notice Lucky trying to figure out where his chess piece belongs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;was two days ago. As is our custom, we had the tree decorated a couple weeks ago, and the kids found their presents under the tree in the morning. But since school days are busy, we waited until after dinner and homework to open them. And the boys open a gift from Uncle John: and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}