{"id":422,"date":"2010-11-28T16:36:13","date_gmt":"2010-11-28T21:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.annakatedonovan.com\/?p=422"},"modified":"2010-11-28T16:36:13","modified_gmt":"2010-11-28T21:36:13","slug":"tradition-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/?p=422","title":{"rendered":"tradition&#8230;tradition&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year in our normal fashion, the Donovan household watched Charlie Brown&#8217;s Thanksgiving special and the Macy&#8217;s Thanksgiving Day Parade. It wouldn&#8217;t feel like Thanksgiving if we didn&#8217;t watch them.<\/p>\n<p>It all begins with Charlie Brown&#8217;s The Great Pumpkin. We watch it faithfully around Halloween. I have seen it every year. As soon as the music begins I am whisked down Nostalgia Lane back to sitting in our little den watching it with my brothers as a child. I laugh at the same parts and am not bothered by the fact that I can recite the whole episode almost word for word.<\/p>\n<p>After Halloween and Thanksgiving the traditions continue. \u00a0The tree&#8230;the lights&#8230;the music&#8230;the movies&#8230;the food&#8230;the time with family&#8230;the smells&#8230;the decorations&#8230;the eggnog&#8230;the presents&#8230;the sights&#8230;the holiday cards&#8230;the list is abundant.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time I have talked about tradition and it probably won&#8217;t be the last. Some families don&#8217;t participate in any rituals and that is fine. For us, these observances are the things that shape our perceptions of the season. They personify a sentiment that we pass from our parents to our children. Our enjoyment of the family traditions is the glue that binds our family holiday experience.<\/p>\n<p>Some of it can all get rather silly I know. But it brings out the child in me and in Robert. And makes our girls giddy with glee. That is the best tradition of all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-excerpt\">This year in our normal fashion, the Donovan household watched Charlie Brown&#8217;s Thanksgiving special and the Macy&#8217;s Thanksgiving Day Parade&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[212,218,219,220,216,217],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts","tag-charlie-brown","tag-christmas","tag-halloween","tag-macys-parade","tag-thanksgiving","tag-tradition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425,"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}