{"id":144,"date":"2008-05-19T19:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T19:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/05\/its-a-major-award.html"},"modified":"2008-05-19T19:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-19T19:57:00","slug":"its-a-major-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/05\/its-a-major-award.html","title":{"rendered":"It’s a Major Award!*"},"content":{"rendered":"

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*Come on — those who know me KNOW that’s where I’d go<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Anyway, my new blog friend, Christina<\/a>, has payed forward her “Excellent Blog Award” to none other than me…I am sincerely humbled by this, especially after yesterday’s somewhat-controversial post!<\/p>\n

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Thank you Christina — I’ll do my best to keep up with the high standards of this award and continue to reflect great credit upon the Ground Control to Major Mom Blog, Blogger.com<\/a>, and the entire Blogosphere.<\/p>\n

Back to resussitating my wireless router. CLEAR!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

*Come on — those who know me KNOW that’s where I’d go! Anyway, my new blog friend, Christina, has payed forward her “Excellent Blog Award” to none other than me…I am sincerely humbled by this, especially after yesterday’s somewhat-controversial post! Thank you Christina — I’ll do my best to keep up with the high standards […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[],"tags":[15,12,14],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-2k","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":180,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/07\/its-time-to-pay-it-forward.html","url_meta":{"origin":144,"position":0},"title":"It’s Time to Pay It Forward!","date":"07 July 08","format":false,"excerpt":"I have been sitting on this for long enough. My poor brain kept prioritizing things all wrong, so now it's getting sorted out. 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