{"id":2455,"date":"2006-11-26T20:08:47","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T04:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm2\/2006\/11\/26\/tradition-tradition-tradition\/"},"modified":"2006-11-26T20:08:47","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T04:08:47","slug":"tradition-tradition-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/2006\/11\/26\/tradition-tradition-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Tradition! Tradition&#8230;  Tradition!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just went to my Aunt and Uncle&#8217;s house for Thanksgiving.  This is the second year in a row that I&#8217;ve gone there, and I&#8217;m liking the tradition.<\/p>\n<p>I dunno about you but my life has been devoid of traditions for quite some time.  (And yes, I&#8217;ve had that perky little song from fiddler going through my head.)<\/p>\n<p>Traditions are important, because they remind you who you are, and help weave structure into your life to help you know where you&#8217;ve come from and where you&#8217;re going.<\/p>\n<p>I know my parents have started reading this, so I&#8217;ll keep this short and tactful: After they divorced the traditions that our family had just fizzled out the window.  Not all at once mind you, but Christmas is no longer the joyous time that I remember it, instead it feels like some former vestige of itself, where perhaps we all get together and tiptoe around the tension, or some years we don&#8217;t and it turns into a lets shuttle between everyone&#8217;s houses.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the reasons I really want to find the right guy, so that I can settle down and start making some of our own traditions&#8230;  That sounds so domestic, and perhaps boring, but I had a counselor who told me once that routines are what allow us to have a structure to build upon.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Perhaps this is one of those reasons I jumped in the car and left Seattle.  I want to start building a home and traditions, but I can&#8217;t see myself doing that in the midwest..<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Cherish the traditions you have, they&#8217;re more important than you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just went to my Aunt and Uncle&#8217;s house for Thanksgiving. This is the second year in a row that I&#8217;ve gone there, and I&#8217;m liking the tradition. I dunno about you but my life has been devoid of traditions for quite some time. (And yes, I&#8217;ve had that perky little song from fiddler going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}