{"id":517,"date":"2008-11-27T22:15:11","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T03:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/?p=517"},"modified":"2008-11-27T22:16:43","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T03:16:43","slug":"thankful-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/2008\/11\/27\/thankful-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thankful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The thing to do today, apart from consume turkey\/tofurkey and sweet pickles, is to somehow acknowledge the things you&#8217;re thankful for as well as be with people you love.<\/p>\n<p>This is me doing the acknowledge thing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thankful for my beautiful daughter.\u00a0 Every day she surprises and delights me. I love the relationship we have, and I&#8217;m eternally grateful she isn&#8217;t a thing like I was as a teen \ud83d\ude42 Instead, she&#8217;s got a sensible head on her shoulders\u00a0 and she&#8217;s waaaaay better at math. I love you kid. You are stunning.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m incredible lucky &#8211; and fully acknowledge this fact &#8211; to have such a cool family. From my dad and his awesome &#8220;sweetie&#8221; and newly acquired sisters, to my Aunty Jo and Uncle Tom and their amazing kids, Gunter and Hannah and their respective SO&#8217;s to my wonderful grandparents, sister and brother-in-law, and of course the cool cousins. It wasn&#8217;t so long ago when I was losing my family, and we were so few. It hurt so much.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Very grateful to have a job I love that gives me room to learn and experiment and grow. And I&#8217;m extremely grateful to still have this job in these rough times. And I&#8217;m lucky to be surrounded with a lot of amazing coworkers. Oh yes, also thankful for Jeans day on Fridays \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The roof over the head and food in bellies, also quite glad to have.<\/p>\n<p>My friends, old and very new, you mean the world to me and I love you all.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;d be silly if I didn&#8217;t mention the intertubes. Without it, I wouldn&#8217;t have some of the stuff mentioned above \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Happy Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thing to do today, apart from consume turkey\/tofurkey and sweet pickles, is to somehow acknowledge the things you&#8217;re thankful for as well as be with people you love. This&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[168,169],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}