{"id":830,"date":"2009-12-16T00:01:35","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T06:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/famille.org\/?p=830"},"modified":"2009-12-15T19:10:34","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T01:10:34","slug":"hanukkah-day-4-candle-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/famille.org\/?p=830","title":{"rendered":"Hanukkah Day 4 (Candle 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to say that tonight was uneventful, but it was quite a night.\u00c2\u00a0 Our youngest two have learned a lesson about the real reason for Hanukkah.<\/p>\n<p>It started when both younger kids were being particularly difficult &#8211; ignoring our admonishments to finish their homework and clean up their messes before we&#8217;d even think about handing out Hanukkah presents, and then digging in to some of Marla&#8217;s keepsakes and using them as toys.\u00c2\u00a0 So tonight, except for Aaron, the &#8220;present&#8221; part of Hanukkah was cancelled.\u00c2\u00a0 We lit candles, sang songs, said prayers, and everything else &#8211; but no presents for them.<\/p>\n<p>So, no pictures of them opening presents.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of it, though, we had read them many stories about what the real reason is for Hanukkah, and the seem to understand &#8211; it&#8217;s not about the presents.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s about the lights.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/famille.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DSC02780.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-831\" title=\"The Lights\" src=\"http:\/\/famille.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DSC02780-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The Lights\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/famille.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DSC02780-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/famille.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DSC02780-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to say that tonight was uneventful, but it was quite a night.\u00c2\u00a0 Our youngest two have learned a lesson about the real reason for Hanukkah. It started when both younger kids were being particularly difficult &#8211; ignoring our admonishments to finish their homework and clean up their messes before we&#8217;d even think about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids-family"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":832,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions\/832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}