{"id":4554,"date":"2009-11-26T13:43:43","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T17:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/?p=4554"},"modified":"2016-10-11T04:48:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T04:48:03","slug":"today-i-am-so-thankful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2009\/11\/today-i-am-so-thankful\/","title":{"rendered":"Today I Am So Thankful&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;for my endlessly patient and loving family, for my inspirational funny intelligent friends who hang in there with me even though I keep moving country&#8230; to my new readers on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/weblog\">yummy wakame<\/a><\/strong> for all the support and insight&#8230; to my uncle Steve who sent me a bunch of never seen toddler photos this morning of our days of yore together&#8230; and to my eternally inappropriate mother who I adore, for remembering Thanksgiving a month too early&#8230;<br \/>\n<em>(I had to dig this one up)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"imgborder\" title=\"Livvie Thanksgiving 2009\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Livvie-Thanksgiving-2009-320x500.jpg\" alt=\"Livvie Thanksgiving 2009\" width=\"320\" height=\"500\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Today I will think about all I have been so incredibly blessed with as I sit around a barbecue feast with friends around my RV home in the tiny town of Marathon Texas, that I am snuggly warm and safe and surrounded by love, and good food, great company, inspirational minds around the world, my new travelling gypsy cat, for work that&#8217;s flowing in like crazy during a usually dead time of year&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>and definitely for the opportunities I now have, because of taking the chance to love and live with Nathan, to travel this beautiful country, for the chance I had to live in the UK all those years ago in the buzzing city of Brighton with Pieter, who is an enduring inspiration to me in every way of a truly compassionate, wise and selfless human being, and for being born to two die-hard freelancing parents of South African Voortrekker blood, still alive and kicking in me, spurning me on in my quest for independence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Happy Day of Thanks to you all! *with love*<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;for my endlessly patient and loving family, for my inspirational funny intelligent friends who hang in there with me even though I keep moving country&#8230; to my new readers on yummy wakame for all the support and insight&#8230; to my uncle Steve who sent me a bunch of never seen toddler photos this morning of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,301,408,213,246,274],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog","category-childhood-memories","category-diary","category-food-for-thought","category-friends","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}