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I spent a lot of years at the kids table when I was young. Family dinners were a big deal.\u00a0 My grandmother lived for them.\u00a0 She was an excellent cook and a hostess extraordinaire. She would recite poetry and lead her guests in singing a few songs.\u00a0 She\u00a0<\/span>would also use her seating chart to try and make marriage matches. I have so many great memories of dinners and holidays and cousins and delicious foo<\/span>d.\u00a0I’m glad that the tradition is still alive with my own kids and their cousins.<\/span><\/p>\n ~\u00a0Sally DeFord<\/p>\n (The\u00a0Straford-Deford family blog<\/a>)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n I spent a lot of years at the kids table when I was young. Family dinners were a big deal.\u00a0 My grandmother lived for them.\u00a0 She was an excellent cook and a hostess extraordinaire. She would recite poetry and lead her guests in singing a few songs.\u00a0 She\u00a0would also use her seating chart to try and make marriage matches. I have so many great memories of dinners and holidays and cousins and delicious food.\u00a0I’m glad that the tradition is still alive with my own kids and their cousins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":36814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,1300],"tags":[1405],"class_list":["post-36813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-latter-day-saint-images","tag-a-mormon-image"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2011-personal-deford7-R1-E002-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36813"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36820,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36813\/revisions\/36820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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