{"id":4841,"date":"2012-11-30T17:31:21","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T01:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=4841"},"modified":"2017-06-08T20:59:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T03:59:09","slug":"the-giving-of-the-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2012\/11\/30\/the-giving-of-the-thanks\/","title":{"rendered":"The Giving of the Thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year’s Thanksgiving saw Audrey and I make our annual trek through traffic and up to Ma & Pa’s residence in the Bay Area, arriving Wednesday night with pies (plural) in hand after more than seven hours on the road. Aaron is again living in the Bay Area and working at Nordstrom, and by “living in the Bay Area” I mean “living with my parents” and doing so by choice<\/i> since economics are not really an issue. Dolphins and parrots supposedly stay in family units for years and years, so younger Holliday’s living arrangement is apparently not without precedent.<\/p>\n

Aaron and I set off on a muddy hike up Mount Diablo on Thanksgiving morning, saw two flocks of wild turkeys on the trip home, ate the world’s largest biscuit, and then joined everyone else in lounging the day away before eating massive quantities for dinner. The following day Audrey and I were off to meet her best friend Krissy in Moss Beach, with a stop along the way in the Marin Headlands to fight for parking and enjoy a view of the Golden Gate. The next morning Krissy took us up into the hills to hike amongst big trees and banana slugs<\/a> before a very tired pair made the long journey back to LA.<\/p>\n

\"Golden<\/p>\n

Golden Gate Bridge from the Marin Headlands.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year’s Thanksgiving saw Audrey and I make our annual trek through traffic and up to Ma & Pa’s residence in the Bay Area, arriving Wednesday night with pies (plural) in hand after more than seven hours on the road. Aaron is again living in the Bay Area and working at Nordstrom, and by “living … Continue reading “The Giving of the Thanks”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,30,29,60],"class_list":["post-4841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-family","tag-photography","tag-recap","tag-thanksgiving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4841"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4855,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841\/revisions\/4855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}