{"id":176,"date":"2016-10-26T19:39:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T02:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/?p=176"},"modified":"2016-10-26T19:42:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T02:42:46","slug":"family-politics-and-apple-cider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"Family, Politics and Apple Cider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My story and this journey are deeply tied to my roots in Michigan. \u00a0I am blessed to have spent my formative years, learned to play <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bicyclecards.com\/how-to-play\/euchre\/\">Euchre<\/a>, adore my extended family and appreciate the\u00a0particular joy that is apple cider and hot donuts on a cold winter day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-177\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/imagejpeg_0.jpg\" alt=\"imagejpeg_0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/imagejpeg_0.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/imagejpeg_0-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Allie and RJ provided me one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2012\/milwaukee-wi-alls-well\/\">best interviews<\/a> of 2012. \u00a0As complex and overwhelming as the issues we face can feel, there is no better antidote than the perspective of young eyes and open hearts. \u00a0Time with them was just what I needed and I hope you can hear the wisdom and kindness that filled every moment I had with Allie, RJ and their parents, Tammy and Bob. \u00a0My hope is that I was able to do justice to these two remarkable children.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube video=_k1_fYuJkFM]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My story and this journey are deeply tied to my roots in Michigan. \u00a0I am blessed to have spent my formative years, learned to play Euchre, adore my extended family and appreciate the\u00a0particular joy that is apple cider and hot donuts on a cold winter day. Allie and RJ provided me one of the best &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/?p=176\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Family, Politics and Apple Cider&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,44],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crazy","tag-help"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}