{"id":5923,"date":"2010-12-25T11:40:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-25T17:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=5923"},"modified":"2010-12-25T11:40:06","modified_gmt":"2010-12-25T17:40:06","slug":"a-christmas-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20101225-5923.htm","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our family Christmas last night was enjoyable, but the last gift absolutely stole the show.<\/p>\n<p>In a box labeled &#8220;From the Menter family to the Menter family&#8221;, we found two cards and several &#8220;Grandma&#8221; and &#8220;Grandpa&#8221; baby bibs.  It was my brother and his wife&#8217;s way of announcing that they&#8217;re pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>Baby J. Mentner will be making his arrival somewhere around the middle of July.  <\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re not finding out Baby&#8217;s sex, but Debbie and I just KNOW it&#8217;s going to be a boy.  (Grace reads over my shoulder and says &#8220;And me!&#8221;)  Daniel, of course, is obstinate and insists it&#8217;s a girl&#8211;and that she&#8217;ll be the cutest girl in the whole world.<\/p>\n<p>The pre-wedding plan said something about having the first kid somewhere around January 2012&#8211;but I&#8217;m glad they re-thought that plan and decided to start a bit earlier.  Since they anticipate moving elsewhere for Dan&#8217;s Ph.D. program sometime in 2012, this gives Auntie Rebekah a bit more time to spoil the little one!<\/p>\n<p>Yep.  This announcement definitely stole the show.<\/p>\n<p>And NOBODY is complaining!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our family Christmas last night was enjoyable, but the last gift absolutely stole the show. In a box labeled &#8220;From the Menter family to the Menter family&#8221;, we found two cards and several &#8220;Grandma&#8221; and &#8220;Grandpa&#8221; baby bibs. It was my brother and his wife&#8217;s way of announcing that they&#8217;re pregnant. Baby J. Mentner will &#8230; <a title=\"A Christmas Announcement\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20101225-5923.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Christmas Announcement<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[6],"tags":[108,128,249,413],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5923"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}