{"id":2323,"date":"2014-12-14T11:40:53","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T15:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/?p=2323"},"modified":"2014-12-14T11:40:53","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T15:40:53","slug":"carol-bensons-great-granchildren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/carol-bensons-great-granchildren\/","title":{"rendered":"Carol Benson&#8217;s Great-granchildren"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"color: #000000\">Hi All,<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000\">Seems the chat list has been silent for several weeks so I thought this would be a nice way to test our list.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000\">Pictured are my eight great-grandchildren when we gathered for Thanksgiving at the Wolcott VT home of Linda\/MeMe and Tom\/Grandpa Martin, the grandparents of this lively group.\u00a0 Next to me-Gigi- is Dylan Haskins, then Sophia Giard whose violin lessons I\u2019m enjoying facilitating, Malia Haskins who will start piano in January, twin Judah Giard, expert climb-anything-anywhere, his older brother Leon, on the floor impish Isabella Giard, \u00a0youngest Giard Calvin and other twin Asher.\u00a0 I helped Asher get his feast from his plate to his mouth where most of it stayed.\u00a0 I am so lucky to have the families of Sara Haskins MHC \u201999 and her sister Eliza Giard living nearby.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000\">Holiday greetings from Vermont to your homes and families.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000\">Carol Sweeney Benson<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"CToWUd a6T\" style=\"color: #000000\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/?ui=2&amp;ik=66ae80e13c&amp;view=fimg&amp;th=14a3f727011f9fdb&amp;attid=0.1.1&amp;disp=emb&amp;attbid=ANGjdJ_6rWOM47ELYsSngPgyAwcvg9Wwk9LB9hLMFoyYvGLrlLm-hZyHdJJBjDVF7ONnYWanZB7c-dV0Tpgiuy2QO8BTTEfPZkjYSLC46KuKGoP1hv3I6PJ2AQBPPHM&amp;sz=w1280-h960&amp;ats=1418569970587&amp;rm=14a3f727011f9fdb&amp;zw&amp;atsh=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi All, Seems the chat list has been silent for several weeks so I thought this would be a nice way to test our list. Pictured are my eight great-grandchildren when we gathered for Thanksgiving at the Wolcott VT home &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/carol-bensons-great-granchildren\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25026],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-stories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}