{"id":5018,"date":"2010-01-31T07:00:41","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=5018"},"modified":"2013-06-12T12:01:46","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T18:01:46","slug":"welcome-to-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/welcome-to-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nancee_art\/4305828377\/\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"February 2010 wall calendar ~ happy valentine's day ~\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2755\/4305828377_04ba174e83.jpg\" alt=\"February 2010 wall calendar ~ happy valentine's day ~\" width=\"386\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Welcome to February!<\/p>\n<p>Well, not quite I suppose &#8212; depending on when you read this. <\/p>\n<p><strong>But a few things to look forward to this month:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s Black History Month &#038; the <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.readin.dcccd.edu\/\">DCCCD African American Read-In<\/span>\n<\/li>\n<li>My sister Kara turns 25\n<\/li>\n<li>Valentines Day\n<\/li>\n<li>I turn 31\n<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;re scheduled to close on our new house in Forney at the end of the month&#8230;. YIKES! We still need a solid contract on our house!!!!\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>And a few things to look back on &#8212; aka the top posts from January 2010.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/take-action\/ways-to-give-aid-for-haitian-relief\">Ways to give aid for Haiti relief<\/a> &#8211; having this one tweeted by <span class=\"twitshort\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/MensHealthMag\" target=\"_blank\">@MensHealthMag<\/a><\/span> definitely didn&#8217;t hurt things<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/faith\/10-kingdom-bloggers-to-watch-in-2010\/\">11 Kingdom bloggers to watch in 2010<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/jonathan\/take-action\/orphans-and-the-tragedy-in-haiti\">Orphans and the tragedy in Haiti<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/faith\/11-things-i-love-about-the-institutional-church\/\">11 things I love about the institutional church<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/reflections\/all-that-good-cancelled-out-with-one-lousy-statement\/\">All that good cancelled out with one lousy statement<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Honorable mention:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/misc\/news-entertainment\/music\/top-songs-of-2009\/\">Top songs of 2009<\/a> &#8211; This was actually one of the top 5 viewed posts for the month, but it didn&#8217;t make the official list since I wrote it on Dec. 29, 2009 &#8212; it&#8217;s sooo last year \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Did you miss any of those? Were there other favorites that didn&#8217;t make the list?<\/p>\n<p>What would you like to see more of?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to more great conversations in 2010!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to February! Well, not quite I suppose &#8212; depending on when you read this. But a few things to look forward to this month: It&#8217;s Black History Month &#038; the DCCCD African American Read-In My sister Kara turns 25 Valentines Day I turn 31 We&#8217;re scheduled to close on our new house in Forney &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/welcome-to-february\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcome to February<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2812,2902,1913,2896,2907,1463,2958],"class_list":["post-5018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-2812","tag-haiti","tag-january","tag-kingdom-bloggers","tag-orphans","tag-posts","tag-top"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-1iW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11349,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5018\/revisions\/11349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}