{"id":13440,"date":"2020-11-24T02:11:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T08:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=13440"},"modified":"2020-11-24T02:14:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T08:14:06","slug":"today-i-givethanks-to-my-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/today-i-givethanks-to-my-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"Today I #GiveThanks for my Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today is Day #4 of the seven day #GiveThanks challenge.  You can read all about the challenge in yesterday&#8217;s blog post I shared, but the gist of it is that each day for seven days you post pictures and a blurb about something you are thankful for on social media.  I&#8217;ve been posting them on my Facebook page but since some of you may not be linked to me on Facebook I thought I&#8217;d also share my Day #4 post here.  It reads:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/givethanks?__eep__=6&amp;__cft__[0]=AZXAmXw4Crgn0R8rd_woQcpSO-3YSv7falWqmm-REhkA0z2q0TQzQkFskukHhI5iKheleD4qLcg-9EJ-tKPqBhOhFsuQX8dr47KtJHcwPWIAjA&amp;__tn__=*NK-R\">#givethanks<\/a> for my Mother and Father who decided to get married and have ten children, who chose to stay married for these last 58+ years, and who now have so many children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren that I&#8217;ve lost count&#8230;but they could tell you the exact count, with the names and birthdays&#8230;and ever year for Christmas they hang up stockings for every single one of them. My parents are my teachers, my exemplars, my heroes, my shoulders I can cry on, my loudest cheerleaders, and my dearest and most treasured friends. I am so blessed to have them as my parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"13441\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=13441\" class=\"wp-image-13441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/1-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, 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(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/4-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"13444\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=13444\" class=\"wp-image-13444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/4-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/4-200x134.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/4-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/4-2048x1369.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/5-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"13446\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=13446\" class=\"wp-image-13446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/5-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/5-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/5-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/5-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/5-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/5-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_4852-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"13447\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_4852-1-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=13447\" class=\"wp-image-13447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_4852-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_4852-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_4852-1-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_4852-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_4852-1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, 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You can read all about the challenge in yesterday&#8217;s blog post I shared, but the gist of it is that each day for seven days you post pictures and a blurb about something you are thankful for on social media. I&#8217;ve been posting them on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24523,24529,24530,395,2038,21486,24528,591,3089,29,1501,4010,35,16858,11,2559,11514,24525,24526,24527],"class_list":["post-13440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-givethanks","tag-50-year-anniversary","tag-all-because-two-people-fell-in-love","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-commitment","tag-eternities-beginning","tag-everything-i-needed-to-know","tag-friendship","tag-gerald-rees","tag-god","tag-jesus-christ","tag-leslie-rees","tag-love","tag-love-your-parents","tag-marriage","tag-parents","tag-russell-m-nelson","tag-seven-day-givethanks-challenge","tag-thankful-for-my-parents","tag-they-raised-me-right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13440"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13451,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13440\/revisions\/13451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}