{"id":886,"date":"2008-08-31T12:28:22","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T17:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/?p=886"},"modified":"2008-08-31T12:28:22","modified_gmt":"2008-08-31T17:28:22","slug":"another-labor-day-another-visit-from-detroit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/31\/another-labor-day-another-visit-from-detroit\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Labor Day, Another Visit from Detroit"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weekend was the second annual visit from Detroit, with my Mom and Dad coming, as well as Debbie and Madison. This year my sister Dawn was unable to come because her little John was not feeling up to the trip.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Here are a few photos, and you can find the rest of them on\u00a0Flickr<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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This weekend was the second annual visit from Detroit, with my Mom and Dad coming, as well as Debbie and Madison. This year my sister Dawn was unable to come because her little John was not feeling up to the trip.\u00a0 Here are a few photos, and you can find the rest of them on\u00a0Flickr.\u00a0<\/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":[13,10,77,75,76,78,21,14],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-text","tag-andrew","tag-brenda","tag-debbie-ollar","tag-grandma-tomchak","tag-grandpa-tomchak","tag-madison-ollar","tag-max","tag-tom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47XZT-ei","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":883,"url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/27\/madisons-first-day-of-school\/","url_meta":{"origin":886,"position":0},"title":"Madison’s First Day of School","author":"Thomas Tomchak","date":"August 27, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Madison Ollar, daughter of my sister Debbie and her husband Steve Ollar.\u00a0 It seems like only yesterday that we welcomed Madison into the world, and now she's heading off to her first day of school.\u00a0","rel":"","context":"In \"madison\"","block_context":{"text":"madison","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/tag\/madison\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/082708_09571.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/082708_09571.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/082708_09571.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3491,"url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/10\/madisons-first-communion\/","url_meta":{"origin":886,"position":1},"title":"Madison’s First Communion","author":"Thomas Tomchak","date":"May 10, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I had the great privilege of being the official photographer (as in \"hey sister, want me to take some photos today?\") of my niece and goddaughter Madison. 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