{"id":97,"date":"2009-06-09T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T09:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tessa.datdec.com\/wordpress\/?p=97"},"modified":"2009-06-09T09:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T09:04:00","slug":"thank-you-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"Thank you notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/uploaded_images\/IMG_5400-786723.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px;\n    CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 225px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/uploaded_images\/IMG_5400-786361.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m an old-fashioned, thank you notes<br \/>\n    kinda girl and I&#8217;m trying to instill that in my kids as well.<br \/>\n    This year, with Lex&#8217;s new found interest in email (not so<br \/>\n    old-fashioned) we gave him the choice of writing email thank<br \/>\n    you notes or decorating cards to mail. Not surprisingly, he<br \/>\n    chose email. It takes him FOREVER to write a message (find the<br \/>\n    key he&#8217;s looking for, think for awhile, get distracted with<br \/>\n    cool stuff on the desk, find another key, etc.) so they are<br \/>\n    slow going. The cool thing though is that they are very<br \/>\n    heartfelt. After he got those Legos from Dylan and played with<br \/>\n    them for awhile, he jumped up and said that we need to write<br \/>\n    Dylan a thank you note! So we did. Yesterday, practically all<br \/>\n    day, he played with an activity book from Grandma. At one point<br \/>\n    I asked if he remembered that it was from Grandma and he said,<br \/>\n    &#8220;Oh, we should write her a thank you note.&#8221; So we did. It&#8217;s<br \/>\n    taking us awhile to get through them, but it&#8217;s probably more<br \/>\n    valuable to him this way than if I were to have him color on<br \/>\n    cards while I write the notes and send them off all in one<br \/>\n    day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m an old-fashioned, thank you notes kinda girl and I&#8217;m trying to instill that in my kids as well. This year, with Lex&#8217;s new found interest in email (not so old-fashioned) we gave him the choice of writing email thank &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=97\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}