{"id":33501,"date":"2016-12-14T19:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T00:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=33501"},"modified":"2016-12-15T20:12:40","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T01:12:40","slug":"including-family-in-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=33501","title":{"rendered":"Including Family in the Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Holidays can be a hard time for people who are coping with the loss of a family member.\u00a0 That&#8217;s one of the reasons it is so nice to have certain traditions that you always follow.\u00a0 It&#8217;s also\u00a0 good\u00a0 to include family members in the holidays by involving them in the preparations and celebration.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t matter if they are toddlers, teens, or advanced in age, there&#8217;s always something they can do.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a way of creating memories with them that you will always have.<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-33502\" src=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_3704-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas poinsettia - The 2 Seasons\" width=\"640\" height=\"961\" srcset=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_3704-682x1024.jpg 682w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_3704-215x323.jpg 215w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_3704-300x451.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.angieslist.com\/articles\/including-family-thanksgiving.htm\" target=\"_blank\">November article<\/a> that we wrote for Angie&#8217;s List has some great suggestions about celebrating holidays with out families.\u00a0 Although it is geared toward Thanksgiving, some of the ideas certainly can be applied to Christmas, as well.\u00a0\u00a0 We wanted to publish it for you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.angieslist.com\/articles\/including-family-thanksgiving.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> so that you might find an idea or two to add to your own rituals and traditions.<\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Cheers!<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-33592\" src=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/pic-pic-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"pic-pic\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" srcset=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/pic-pic-682x1024.jpg 682w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/pic-pic-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/pic-pic-215x323.jpg 215w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/pic-pic-275x275.jpg 275w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/pic-pic-400x400.jpg 400w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/pic-pic-300x450.jpg 300w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/pic-pic-640x640.jpg 640w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/pic-pic-120x120.jpg 120w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/pic-pic.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holidays can be a hard time for people who are coping with the loss of a family member.\u00a0 That&#8217;s one of the reasons it is so nice to have certain traditions that you always follow.\u00a0 It&#8217;s also\u00a0 good\u00a0 to include family members in the holidays by involving them in the preparations and celebration.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33501"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33501"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33594,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33501\/revisions\/33594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}