{"id":8801,"date":"2011-01-18T01:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T01:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8801"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:36:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:36:26","slug":"day-70-candle-give-and-candy-regifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8801","title":{"rendered":"Day 70 &#8211; Candle (Give) and Candy Regifting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/145-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday was Day 70 and The Princess&#8217; 4th Birthday.\u00a0  After church Beka offered to come by to help with birthday party preparations &#8230; if we needed help.\u00a0 We ALWAYS need help on birthdays.\u00a0 And I already knew that I would be spending most of my afternoon (before our 4:00 appointment with Chuck E. Cheese) working on a pink and purple princess castle birthday cake.\u00a0 So Melissa and I gladly welcomed Beka&#8217;s offer. Before Beka left, Melissa offered up a simple candle she had received recently.\u00a0 It smells great, but it has cinnamon in it and that (along with cats) tends to make Melissa sneeze.\u00a0  Melissa was also clever enough to spot an opportunity to empty a kitchen cabinet of its Christmas (and even some lingering Halloween) candy.\u00a0 She made little gift bags of candy for each of the kids who came (and included a little toy as well &#8211; it wasn&#8217;t ALL recycled!).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was Day 70 and The Princess&#8217; 4th Birthday.\u00a0 After church Beka offered to come by to help with birthday party preparations &#8230; if we needed help.\u00a0 We ALWAYS need help on birthdays.\u00a0 And I already knew that I would be spending most of my afternoon (before our 4:00 appointment with Chuck E. Cheese) working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8803,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8801\/revisions\/8803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}