{"id":11968,"date":"2023-01-01T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=11968"},"modified":"2023-01-03T07:03:17","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T12:03:17","slug":"new-years-eve-at-the-american-legion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/01\/new-years-eve-at-the-american-legion\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s Eve at the American Legion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The original plan was to attend the New Year&#8217;s Eve party here at my RV resort. But the tickets were $50 each, the band was the &#8220;house band&#8221; &#8211; a bunch of residents who jam together and are decent but not great (especially on vocals) and the food last year was just awful. Marlene found a party at the American Legion in Lehigh Acres that was just $50 per couple and included a dinner choice of prime rib or fish. So we went to the Legion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accompanying us were Marlene&#8217;s neighbors, Chris and Lynne, and her bff, Dottie, and their friend John. The band was good, but not great &#8211; as was the food &#8211; but we all had a very good time. Kudos to Marlene for finding a better option for ending 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_20221231_191614.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"11970\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_20221231_191614-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11970\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_20221231_191614-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_20221231_191614-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_20221231_191614-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_20221231_191614.jpg 853w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Marlene<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_20221231_220029.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"11971\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_20221231_220029-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11971\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_20221231_220029-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_20221231_220029-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_20221231_220029-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_20221231_220029.jpg 853w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Chris and Lynne<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_20221231_220110.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"11969\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_20221231_220110-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11969\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_20221231_220110-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_20221231_220110-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_20221231_220110-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_20221231_220110.jpg 853w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>John and Dottie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_20221231_221735.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_20221231_221735-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11972\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_20221231_221735-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_20221231_221735-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_20221231_221735-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_20221231_221735.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The ladies with the band<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The original plan was to attend the New Year&#8217;s Eve party here at my RV resort. But the tickets were $50 each, the band was the &#8220;house band&#8221; &#8211; a bunch of residents who jam together and are decent but not great (especially on vocals) and the food last year was just awful. Marlene found &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/01\/new-years-eve-at-the-american-legion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,41,48,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-fl","category-friends","category-places"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-372","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11973,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11968\/revisions\/11973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}