{"id":30051,"date":"2014-04-20T20:55:57","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T00:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=30051"},"modified":"2014-07-23T00:23:57","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T04:23:57","slug":"happy-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/20\/happy-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Easter!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/940b8ff7bf2b776fcc8c8c62991dc1ab.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30053\" alt=\"940b8ff7bf2b776fcc8c8c62991dc1ab\" src=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/940b8ff7bf2b776fcc8c8c62991dc1ab.jpg\" width=\"405\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/940b8ff7bf2b776fcc8c8c62991dc1ab.jpg 405w, http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/940b8ff7bf2b776fcc8c8c62991dc1ab-189x300.jpg 189w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;that&#8217;s what we had.\u00c2\u00a0 I hope yours was joyful and happy, filled with family and friends and children all around.<\/p>\n<p>I completed all my sewing, made up more than one hundred raisin bread\/cream cheese\/jelly sandwiches for the church bunny lunch, finished all the cooking for Easter dinner and spent a joy filled weekend surrounded by all four grandchildren and other family members.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a beautiful Easter celebration.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve all gone home now and the house is quiet.\u00c2\u00a0 The baby isn&#8217;t jabbering non-stop or slipping off to play in the dogs&#8217; water bowl.\u00c2\u00a0 The boys are not running in and out of the house, laughing and slamming screen doors.\u00c2\u00a0 Laurel isn&#8217;t scurrying around, helping in the kitchen or chasing after Vivian Rose.\u00c2\u00a0 My adult children and spouses are not laughing and joking with one another.\u00c2\u00a0 Bob and I are not sharing smiles of understanding and appreciation as our eyes meet across the room.<\/p>\n<p>I hope your Easter was as special.\u00c2\u00a0 And I hope you are not as exhausted as I am.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30057\" style=\"width: 649px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/exhaustion.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30057\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30057\" alt=\"Psst...that's not really me.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/exhaustion.png\" width=\"639\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/exhaustion.png 639w, http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/exhaustion-300x205.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30057\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Psst&#8230;that&#8217;s not really me.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8230;that&#8217;s what we had.\u00c2\u00a0 I hope yours was joyful and happy, filled with family and friends and children all around. I completed all my sewing, made up more than one hundred raisin bread\/cream cheese\/jelly sandwiches for the church bunny &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/20\/happy-easter\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30051"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30051"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30885,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30051\/revisions\/30885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}