{"id":1598,"date":"2009-12-19T19:14:38","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T19:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2019-07-08T04:27:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T08:27:07","slug":"christmas-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/2009\/12\/19\/christmas-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few days we&#8217;ve been getting seriously into the Christmas spirit!  The Embassy&#8217;s local employees organized a major party at a local cafe for the adults of the embassy, with plenty to eat and drink, and lots of dancing and partying.  It was a blast!  And then we hosted, at our house, Breakfast with Santa, for all the Embassy children (and their parents).  We had more than 50 Children sign up, so must have had about 125 people in the house this morning for waffles, Tatyana&#8217;s homemade spudnuts, and juice.  For those who stayed late, Tatyana whipped up pizza, too.  It was a great time.  I was the official photographer, and took 75 photos of Santa with the kids.  It really was a blast and a huge success, I think!<\/p>\n<p>Now comes the excitement of the arrival of William, Christina and Alexandra!  This is going to be a great Christmas!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1606\" style=\"width: 437px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1606\" src=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/MG_80151.jpg\" alt=\"Santa, waiting for the kids to arrive\" title=\"_MG_8015\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1606\" width=\"427\" height=\"641\" srcset=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/MG_80151.jpg 427w, http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/MG_80151-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa, waiting for the kids to arrive<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1605\" style=\"width: 437px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1605\" src=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/PICT98793.jpg\" alt=\"Tatyana, at the Local Employee's Party\" title=\"PICT9879\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1605\" width=\"427\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/PICT98793.jpg 427w, http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/PICT98793-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1605\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tatyana, at the Local Employee's Party<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1607\" style=\"width: 437px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1607\" src=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/MG_80172.jpg\" alt=\"At Breakfast\" title=\"_MG_8017\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1607\" width=\"427\" height=\"641\" srcset=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/MG_80172.jpg 427w, http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/MG_80172-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At Breakfast<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few days we&#8217;ve been getting seriously into the Christmas spirit! The Embassy&#8217;s local employees organized a major party at a local cafe for the adults of the embassy, with plenty to eat and drink, and lots of dancing and partying. It was a blast! And then we hosted, at our house, Breakfast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,12,8,52,1],"tags":[15,167,30,154,166,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5099,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions\/5099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}