{"id":146,"date":"2007-01-04T22:57:03","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T04:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgeandshannon.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/family-family-and-more-family\/"},"modified":"2007-01-05T20:30:06","modified_gmt":"2007-01-06T02:30:06","slug":"family-family-and-more-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/family-family-and-more-family","title":{"rendered":"Family, Family, and MORE Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent 9 days visiting family for the holidays and had a great time. Tonight I realized that in each of the past 4 days I have shared a meal with different members of my extended family. Lunch in my hometown with my family on Monday. Dinner with some members of G&#8217;s family on Tuesday. Lunch on Wednesday with my sister-in-law and her daughter as I was running errands in her neck of the woods. And finally dinner with my extended family tonight.<\/p>\n<p>How much family would that be? I&#8217;m glad you asked. It would be 2 grandparents, 2 parents, 2 parents-in-law, 2 sisters, 2 sisters-in-law, 3 brothers-in-law, 1 niece, 1 nephew, 7 cousins, 3 aunts, 3 uncles, 4 first cousins once removed (or children of my cousins).<\/p>\n<p>If you want to extend that to include the past 2 weeks you can add 2 more grandparents, 2 more brothers-in-law, 2 uncles-in-law, 2 aunts-in-law, 1 cousin-in-law and 3 first-cousins-once-removed-in-laws (or something like that). But that is getting WAY too complicated so I&#8217;ll stop there.<\/p>\n<p>One of the cousins I was able to see tonight was a cousin George has never met. He brought his two kids for us all to meet. It was really good to see him after such a long absence.<\/p>\n<p>George and I both feel blessed to have such family around us. There are definitely crazy moments, and I doubt that any of our family gatherings will ever be called &#8220;calm&#8221;. But we do feel blessed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent 9 days visiting family for the holidays and had a great time. Tonight I realized that in each of the past 4 days I have shared a meal with different members of my extended family. Lunch in my hometown with my family on Monday. Dinner with some members of G&#8217;s family on Tuesday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}