{"id":1618,"date":"2009-09-25T13:09:08","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T20:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2009-09-29T07:07:20","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T14:07:20","slug":"i-held-a-beautiful-party-for-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/i-held-a-beautiful-party-for-three\/","title":{"rendered":"New Friends are such a Good Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1621\" title=\"party 001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/party-001.jpg\" alt=\"party 001\" width=\"567\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/party-001.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/party-001-262x300.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I hosted a beautiful party last night. I mean, the flowers matched the colorful drinks; the Boursin cheese and Carr&#8217;s wheat crackers were perfect, and the eclairs were exceptional. (If I do say so myself.) It was meant to be a mom&#8217;s night out for friends. I asked each woman to bring a bag with some objects that represent her. We took turns sharing what was in each bag. Gifts were exchanged. We were sad to have the evening end &#8220;so soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We shared our faith, our challenges, our children, our dreams. Oh, boy, it was nice. Here are my friends who came:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1622\" title=\"party 005\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/party-005.jpg\" alt=\"party 005\" width=\"652\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/party-005.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/party-005-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was grateful I had some extra treats to share with my family when I got home. We were so pumped up on SoBe pina colada and cheese and crackers, we got to bed really late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hosted a beautiful party last night. I mean, the flowers matched the colorful drinks; the Boursin cheese and Carr&#8217;s wheat crackers were perfect, and the eclairs were exceptional. (If I do say so myself.) It was meant to be a mom&#8217;s night out for friends. I asked each woman to bring a bag with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/i-held-a-beautiful-party-for-three\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Friends are such a Good Idea<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beauty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1623,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions\/1623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}