{"id":159,"date":"2007-05-14T04:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T04:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wordpress\/?p=159"},"modified":"2007-05-14T04:06:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-14T04:06:00","slug":"thank-you-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/thank-you-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You Mom!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sukofamily.org\/uploaded_images\/IMG_2878ee-705026.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sukofamily.org\/uploaded_images\/IMG_2878ee-705019.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<p>Tommorrow Christina&#8217;s mother, Maria will be going back home to Ukraine.  How wonderful it was to have her come half way around the world to watch our children for 3 weeks!  It was a special blessing for Christina to spend Mother&#8217;s day with her own mother! Maria was even interviewed durning the Sunday morning service about her church back in Cherkassy and how they celebrate Mother&#8217;s Day in Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sukofamily.org\/uploaded_images\/IMG_2878ee-705026.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sukofamily.org\/uploaded_images\/IMG_2878ee-705019.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Tommorrow Christina&#8217;s mother, Maria will be going back home to Ukraine.  How wonderful it was to have her come half way around the world to watch our children for 3 weeks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3izZc-2z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":328,"url":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/double-holiday\/","url_meta":{"origin":159,"position":0},"title":"Double Holiday","author":"Caleb Suko","date":"May 9, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Today is a significant holiday both in the former USSR and the USA. 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