{"id":14318,"date":"2025-01-12T14:37:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T19:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=14318"},"modified":"2025-01-12T14:37:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T19:37:19","slug":"welcoming-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/12\/welcoming-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcoming 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_20241231_213445.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_20241231_213445-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_20241231_213445-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_20241231_213445-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_20241231_213445-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_20241231_213445-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_20241231_213445.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Me, John, Marlene and Deb<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Marlene and I had our third New Year&#8217;s Eve and, for the third time, went out dancing. This time, like last year, we went to the Eagles Club. The band was better this year &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UnforgivenCountryBand\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UnforgivenCountryBand\/\">The Unforgiven<\/a> &#8211; but not many people were dancing. Not a problem for us. We don&#8217;t mind showing off on the dance floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This party also served as a going-away celebration for friends John and Debbie who have hosted us for many nights of Hand, Knee and Foot this year. They are moving to Texas. They will be missed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/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=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_20241231_221102.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"14320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_20241231_221102-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_20241231_221102-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_20241231_221102-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_20241231_221102.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Jello shots<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_20241231_234927.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"14321\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_20241231_234927-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_20241231_234927-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_20241231_234927-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_20241231_234927.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Lead singer and Marlene<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marlene and I had our third New Year&#8217;s Eve and, for the third time, went out dancing. This time, like last year, we went to the Eagles Club. The band was better this year &#8211; The Unforgiven &#8211; but not many people were dancing. Not a problem for us. We don&#8217;t mind showing off on &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/12\/welcoming-2025\/\">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":[41,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fl","category-friends"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-3IW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14318","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=14318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14322,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14318\/revisions\/14322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}