{"id":24329,"date":"2025-02-07T13:57:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T18:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24329"},"modified":"2025-02-13T14:38:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T19:38:29","slug":"second-christmas-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24329","title":{"rendered":"Second Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24331\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_20250207_022504.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24331\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_20250207_022504-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Jim, Hannah, Abba, Jeff, Dorothy, and Cathy\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_20250207_022504-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_20250207_022504-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_20250207_022504-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_20250207_022504-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_20250207_022504.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim, Hannah, Abba, Jeff, Dorothy, and Cathy<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With family scattered around the country, it isn&#8217;t always possible to be together on Christmas. In Cathy&#8217;s family, therefore, there is a tradition of Second Christmas, which happens anytime after December 25 sometimes as late as March the following year. This year, Second Christmas was celebrated on February 7 and 8. Cathy&#8217;s Brother Jim and his daughters Abba and Hannah flew in last night from Illinois and Dorothy and Jeff drove from Pennsylvania. We had a really nice visit with grandma in the morning and early afternoon. Then we went to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lcdutchmarket.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lancaster County Dutch Market<\/a> before heading to Great Falls. We walked to Olmsted Island, which is where this photo was taken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With family scattered around the country, it isn&#8217;t always possible to be together on Christmas. In Cathy&#8217;s family, therefore, there is a tradition of Second Christmas, which happens anytime after December 25 sometimes as late as March the following year. This year, Second Christmas was celebrated on February 7 and 8. Cathy&#8217;s Brother Jim and &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24329\">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":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[37,1593,400,3690],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24329"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24333,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24329\/revisions\/24333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}