{"id":324,"date":"2008-03-19T17:57:37","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T00:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=324"},"modified":"2008-11-30T14:26:48","modified_gmt":"2008-11-30T21:26:48","slug":"las-vegas-family-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas, Family Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every time Donna and I visit\u00a0our son and daughter-in-law and grandchildren in Las Vegas, I promise myself I&#8217;m going to write a blog entry about Las Vegas as a place to live.\u00a0 People have odd ideas about the place, but I think if they could see the neighborhoods where residents live, they&#8217;d realize what a great family town it is.\u00a0 Lovely homes, safe streets, plenty of parks and sports fields for the kids, churches,\u00a0young hard-working mommies and daddies raising children and trying to get ahead.<\/p>\n<p>But then I go to the corner supermarket or gas station, and inevitably, any time of day, any day of the week, just inside the door is a room or alcove full of cigarette-smoking zombies blowing the rent money on\u00a0slots and video poker.\u00a0 Okay, it&#8217;s Las Vegas.\u00a0\u00a0A good place to live and raise a family (unless you&#8217;re Amish).<\/p>\n<p>So here are some Las Vegas family pix:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1106\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1106\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1106\" title=\"taylor_ball\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/taylor_ball.jpg\" alt=\"Taylor pops a fly ball\" width=\"400\" height=\"320\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1106\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor pops a fly ball<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1107\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1107\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1107\" title=\"vegas_family\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/vegas_family.jpg\" alt=\"Beth, Gregory, Quentin, Polly, Taylor, and Donna\" width=\"400\" height=\"363\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1107\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beth, Gregory, Quentin, Polly, Taylor, and Donna<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Now, doesn&#8217;t that make you want to live there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time Donna and I visit\u00a0our son and daughter-in-law and grandchildren in Las Vegas, I promise myself I&#8217;m going to write a blog entry about Las Vegas as a place to live.\u00a0 People have odd ideas about the place, but I think if they could see the neighborhoods where residents live, they&#8217;d realize what a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1108,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/1108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}