{"id":233,"date":"2016-08-16T20:11:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T20:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/candlerdmintraining\/?p=233"},"modified":"2016-08-16T20:11:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T20:11:21","slug":"mary-day-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/candlerdmintraining\/2016\/08\/16\/mary-day-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Day 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As twins, Mary and Emma share a birthday.\u00a0 Each year, we also give each of them a day that&#8217;s all their own when we celebrate them individually.\u00a0 August 15 was &#8220;Mary Day,&#8221; chosen because it&#8217;s also the feast day of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Assumption_of_Mary\" target=\"_blank\">Assumption of the Virgin Mary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mary loves whales.\u00a0 We visited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marineland.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marineland<\/a> in Niagara Falls, ON, on Friday so that she could see the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beluga_whale\" target=\"_blank\">beluga whales<\/a> they have there. She had never seen a real live whale before, and she was ecstatic! \u00a0 NaNa and Emma baked this cake for her, and iced it to look &#8220;like a beluga in a tank.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_264\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-264\" class=\"wp-image-264 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/candlerdmintraining\/files\/2016\/08\/Mary-Day-Cake-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"A picture of Mary Thomason posing with her cake, topped with a whale figurine\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/candlerdmintraining\/files\/2016\/08\/Mary-Day-Cake-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/candlerdmintraining\/files\/2016\/08\/Mary-Day-Cake.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Day 2016 Cake<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And now for something completely different&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lefP0_ZM-Lw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As twins, Mary and Emma share a birthday.\u00a0 Each year, we also give each of them a day that&#8217;s all their own when we celebrate them individually.\u00a0 August 15 was <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/candlerdmintraining\/2016\/08\/16\/mary-day-2016\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3907,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[41,37,42,39,40,38],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abcd","category-names","tag-assumption","tag-beluga","tag-cake","tag-fish","tag-monty-python","tag-whales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/candlerdmintraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/candlerdmintraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/candlerdmintraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/candlerdmintraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/candlerdmintraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/candlerdmintraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/candlerdmintraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/candlerdmintraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/candlerdmintraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/candlerdmintraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}