{"id":73,"date":"2013-07-04T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=73"},"modified":"2013-07-04T17:07:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T17:07:00","slug":"allan-family-reunion-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2013\/07\/04\/allan-family-reunion-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Allan Family Reunion 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog8\/allan1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mid-June saw the first full reunion for my mother&#8217;s siblings, their mother, their spouses, most of the cousins, and all the grandkids. Altogether there were 24 of us on Friday evening. It was the first time I had seen any of my maternal extended family since 1999\/2000. In fact it was the first time I met one of my uncles. We gathered in Canmore for a weekend.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog8\/allan7.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pink: Women<br \/>\nBlue: Men<br \/>\nGrey: Absent<\/p>\n<p>The only people missing were my grandfather (he and my grandmother divorced in the 1970s), my father (he and my mom divorced in the 1990s), my sister&#8217;s partner, and two adult cousins (one of whom I have never met).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog8\/allan3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We hung out in Canmore, Banff, and Lake Louise. Hanging out is a weak way of saying we strolled through shops, climbed Sulfur Mountain, walked along Lake Louise, skipped rocks on Lake Minnewanka, played games, ate food, and caught up a lot. It was a great visit and made it clear that we have to stay in touch better and make greater efforts to visit one another.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog8\/allan4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog8\/allan5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog8\/allan6.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here are our four generations:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\nWoodford &gt; Allan &gt; Robichaud &gt; Robichaud\/Demitor\/Toijanen<\/div>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog8\/allan2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-June saw the first full reunion for my mother&#8217;s siblings, their mother, their spouses, most of the cousins, and all the grandkids. Altogether there were 24 of us on Friday evening. It was the first time I had seen any of my maternal extended family since 1999\/2000. In fact it was the first time I &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2013\/07\/04\/allan-family-reunion-2013\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-73","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-family","9":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}