{"id":294,"date":"2009-11-22T02:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T02:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/22\/our-gratitude-tree\/"},"modified":"2009-11-22T02:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T02:26:00","slug":"our-gratitude-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/22\/our-gratitude-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Gratitude Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(153,51,0);\"><strong>Here&#8217;s a little project we made up today<br \/>\nin honor of Thanksgiving<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2793\/4123544849_83b49a1c48.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We cut a branch outside and trimmed it<br \/>\nand pushed it deep into a nice heavy potted plant.<br \/>\nThen we cut leaves out of colored paper<br \/>\nand wrote things we were thankful for<br \/>\non each one.<br \/>\nWe punched holes at the ends<br \/>\nand hung them from the branches.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2690\/4124313676_7f962edd9a.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We each had our own color.<br \/>\nMine was teal, Daryl&#8217;s was red.<br \/>\nThe kids had purple, green and blue.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2492\/4124313810_f36a3a487e.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The kids were so proud of our finished gratitude tree<br \/>\nand I have to admit it makes me smile too.<\/p>\n<p>More thankful projects and activities are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/examiner\/x-23788-Minneapolis-Attachment-Parenting--Examiner~y2009m11d21-Tips-crafts-and-activities-for-thankful-children\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And did you know about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/examiner\/x-23788-Minneapolis-Attachment-Parenting--Examiner~y2009m11d22-Three-Melissa-and-Doug-toys-recalled-in-Canada-for-barium-in-paint\">Melissa and Doug recalls in Canada<\/a>?<br \/>\nI think those of us in the U.S. should be aware of it, too,<br \/>\nsince their toys all come from the same factories (in China)<br \/>\nand the holidays are coming.<\/p>\n<p>Enough seriousness.<br \/>\nPlease go do some random silly thing now<br \/>\nand have a wonderful Sunday.<br \/>\n\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a little project we made up today in honor of Thanksgiving We cut a branch outside and trimmed it and pushed it deep into a nice heavy potted plant. Then we cut leaves out of colored paper and wrote things we were thankful for on each one. We punched holes at the ends and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[27,69,121,123,232],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}