{"id":11828,"date":"2013-07-06T21:31:56","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T20:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=11828"},"modified":"2013-07-07T09:37:54","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T08:37:54","slug":"family-birthday-reunion-in-leicester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=11828","title":{"rendered":"Family birthday reunion in Leicester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My sister always ensures that the extended family is brought together at least once a year &#8211; usually around Christmas. This year, however, we have a summer of birthdays with a &#8216;0&#8217; or a &#8216;5&#8217; in the date, so today she convened an extra gathering at her home in Leicester.<\/p>\n<p>The weather was brilliant. But, for Vee and me, our time on the M1 motorway was not so fun. On the way up,\u00a0there was a four-car shunt which delayed us. On the way back, there was a serious accident involving several cars and a minibus, a section of the M1 was closed, and we had to divert to the M40 instead.<\/p>\n<p>The celebration in Leicester brought together 26 of us related by blood or marriage. The age range was from 2 to 75 (and we had the announcement of a pregnancy). <\/p>\n<p>One is 75 this summer; one (me) is 65; two are 45; one is 35; one is 30; one is 10; and one is 5. We all shared the same homemade cake but let the littlest ones blow out the candles. Much food was consumed and many photographs were taken.<\/p>\n<p>Huge thanks to my wonderful sister Silvia for a splendid day.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/cake.jpg\" border=\"3\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sister always ensures that the extended family is brought together at least once a year &#8211; usually around Christmas. This year, however, we have a summer of birthdays with a &#8216;0&#8217; or a &#8216;5&#8217; in the date, so today she convened an extra gathering at her home in Leicester. The weather was brilliant. But, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11828"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11831,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11828\/revisions\/11831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}