{"id":1690,"date":"2009-07-06T07:00:59","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/?p=1690"},"modified":"2009-07-04T23:07:51","modified_gmt":"2009-07-05T05:07:51","slug":"ichatting-with-grandma-grandpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/06\/ichatting-with-grandma-grandpa\/","title":{"rendered":"iChatting with Grandma &#038; Grandpa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"clear: both\">This past weekend we did an iChat session with the twins and Grandma and Grandpa back in Michigan. The boys seemed to love and and we&#8217;re going to try and do it every few weeks from now on. That way the boys won&#8217;t yell &#8220;Stranger Danger&#8221; the next time they go to Michigan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both\">More photos can be found on <a href=\"http:\/\/tomchak.smugmug.com\/gallery\/8794070_uGNtr#582219660_RfQUT\" target=\"_blank\">SmugMug<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both\"><a class=\"image-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/2009-07-04-mg-0286.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"linked-to-original\" style=\" text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/2009-07-04-mg-0286-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both\"><a class=\"image-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/2009-07-04-mg-0289.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"linked-to-original\" style=\" text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/2009-07-04-mg-0289-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both\"><a class=\"image-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/2009-07-04-mg-0304.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"linked-to-original\" style=\" text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/2009-07-04-mg-0304-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both\"><a class=\"image-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/2009-07-04-mg-0319.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"linked-to-original\" style=\" text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/2009-07-04-mg-0319-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"final-break\" style=\"clear: both\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend we did an iChat session with the twins and Grandma and Grandpa back in Michigan. The boys seemed to love and and we&#8217;re going to try and do it every few weeks from now on. That way the boys won&#8217;t yell &#8220;Stranger Danger&#8221; the next time they go to Michigan. More photos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[3,4],"tags":[13,23,22,149,21],"class_list":["post-1690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-text","tag-andrew","tag-grandma","tag-grandpa","tag-ichat","tag-max"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47XZT-rg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":199,"url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/16\/a-nice-weekend-with-grandma-grandpa-tomchak\/","url_meta":{"origin":1690,"position":0},"title":"A Nice Weekend with Grandma &#038; Grandpa Tomchak","author":"Thomas Tomchak","date":"March 16, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't have enough time to post much more then this right now, but I'll have more later in the week, including a video as soon as I figure out why it's not posting on the site properly. 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Andrew asked me on more than one occasion when we were putting lights on the house (the real answer is maybe never, but I told him not this year). 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