{"id":28836,"date":"2012-12-16T00:09:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T08:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=28836"},"modified":"2012-12-16T00:09:56","modified_gmt":"2012-12-16T08:09:56","slug":"jingling-mingling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/28836","title":{"rendered":"Dear Friends Are Near"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Christmas is here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image wp-image-28879\" title=\"gift_gab-christmas_party-934\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/gift_gab-christmas_party-934.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"203\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We had our annual farm Christmas party last weekend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Things got a lot more tame after a lively round of Pictionary and we settled in for our gift exchange. (My team won\u2014so no time for photos!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image wp-image-28880\" title=\"gift_gab-christmas_party-942\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/gift_gab-christmas_party-942.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"203\" \/>Here&#8217;s Stella diving into a round of creamy feta cheese made weekly using the milk from our adorable\u00a0Jersey cows. (We deliver milk, feta cheese, and butter\u00a0on a regular basis to seven families in town.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image wp-image-28881\" title=\"gift_gab-christmas_party-919\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/gift_gab-christmas_party-919.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But she REALLY went for the sugary-sweet carrots I&#8217;d harvested only an hour earlier from our greenhouse. What a good eater she is!!!! She&#8217;s always choosing things like carrots over cookies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image wp-image-28882\" title=\"gift_gab-christmas_party-913\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/gift_gab-christmas_party-913.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This dish brought the house down\u2014corn pudding with green chilies\u2014brought by Sue who works in our Coeur d&#8217;Alene, Idaho store.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image wp-image-28885\" title=\"gift_gab-christmas_party-914\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/gift_gab-christmas_party-914.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And this guy and his wife? Adorable, right? Kris works in our food facility. His wife is studying to be a medical doctor. Kris looks professorial because he is! He has a degree in ancient languages or some such thing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Our employees are vital to what we do here. Big round of applause!!!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image wp-image-28974\" title=\"gift_gab-christmas_party-1946\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/gift_gab-christmas_party-1946.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas is here. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/28836\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[549],"class_list":["post-28836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gift_for_gab","tag-maryjanes-gift-for-gab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}