{"id":674,"date":"2008-10-10T18:50:23","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T01:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=674"},"modified":"2008-10-11T18:53:02","modified_gmt":"2008-10-12T01:53:02","slug":"our-california-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=674","title":{"rendered":"Our California Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we went to our Goddaughter Natasha&#8217;s wedding in San Jose, California.\u00a0 Donna left on Tuesday to visit aunts, uncles, and cousins in the Bay Area; I flew in Thursday afternoon, the day before the wedding; we flew home together Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Natasha is the daughter of probably our oldest friend, Trish, who we met in college back in the late 1960s.\u00a0 We had several names for Natasha when she was younger.\u00a0 The one I remember best is Spawn of Satan.\u00a0 But the girl grew up, put herself through college, and landed a great guy, Natale.\u00a0 Funny how that happens.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose I should mention that I conducted Natasha&#8217;s wedding ceremony, because otherwise you&#8217;ll wonder what I&#8217;m doing in this photo:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_675\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-675\" style=\"width: 425px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/10-11-08_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-675\" title=\"Alex (best man), Natasha, Natale, moi, Jennifer (maid of honor), Samantha (flower girl)\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/10-11-08_1.jpg\" alt=\"Natasha's wedding\" width=\"425\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-675\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Natasha&#39;s wedding<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We took several photos of Trish, but my favorite shot of her is an older one, and I hope she&#8217;ll forgive me for posting it here:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_676\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-676\" style=\"width: 425px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/10-11-08_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-676\" title=\"Donna, moi, Trish\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/10-11-08_2.jpg\" alt=\"Happy times!\" width=\"425\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-676\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Happy times!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we went to our Goddaughter Natasha&#8217;s wedding in San Jose, California.\u00a0 Donna left on Tuesday to visit aunts, uncles, and cousins in the Bay Area; I flew in Thursday afternoon, the day before the wedding; we flew home together Sunday. Natasha is the daughter of probably our oldest friend, Trish, who we met [&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-674","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\/674","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=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}