{"id":290,"date":"2008-08-23T13:56:48","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T20:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/?p=290"},"modified":"2008-08-23T13:56:48","modified_gmt":"2008-08-23T20:56:48","slug":"welcome-home-elder-peden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/2008\/08\/23\/welcome-home-elder-peden\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Home Elder Peden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was 5:43 AM yesterday when the shower turned on.\u00a0My mom was up and getting ready. I was semi-dozing in that slightly anxious way when you know your alarm is set a little later than you really need to get up. I let Shannon sleep a few minutes more, but before long, we were all up and on the road to the airport to welcome Jacob home from\u00a0serving in the\u00a0Micronesia Guam Mission. Here are a few pictures of the happy homecoming.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_299\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-299\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/jacob-homecoming-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-299\" title=\"jacob-homecoming-1\" src=\"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/jacob-homecoming-1.jpg\" alt=\"Richard anxiously awaiting his son's arrival\" width=\"500\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-299\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard anxiously awaiting his son&#39;s arrival<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_301\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-301\" style=\"width: 491px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/jacob-homecoming-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-301\" title=\"jacob-homecoming-2\" src=\"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/jacob-homecoming-2.jpg\" alt=\"Mother and son reunited\" width=\"491\" height=\"278\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-301\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mother and son reunited<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_302\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-302\" style=\"width: 464px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/jacob-homecoming-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-302\" title=\"jacob-homecoming-3\" src=\"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/jacob-homecoming-3.jpg\" alt=\"Afton gets a hug from her big cousin\" width=\"464\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-302\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Afton gets a hug from her big cousin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_303\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-303\" style=\"width: 498px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/jacob-homecoming-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-303\" title=\"jacob-homecoming-4\" src=\"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/jacob-homecoming-4.jpg\" alt=\"Part of the welcoming committee\" width=\"498\" height=\"423\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-303\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of the welcoming committee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was 5:43 AM yesterday when the shower turned on.\u00a0My mom was up and getting ready. I was semi-dozing in that slightly anxious way when you know your alarm is set a little later than you really need to get up. I let Shannon sleep a few minutes more, but before long, we were all &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/2008\/08\/23\/welcome-home-elder-peden\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Welcome Home Elder Peden&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-familynews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1809,"href":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/1809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esmithy.net\/sparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}