{"id":3894,"date":"2009-09-23T11:45:22","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T16:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/23\/sunflower-derby-here-we-come\/"},"modified":"2009-09-23T11:45:22","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T16:45:22","slug":"sunflower-derby-here-we-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/23\/sunflower-derby-here-we-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunflower Derby, here we come!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/WindowsLiveWriterSunflowerDerbyherewecome_D34AIMG_1425.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_1425\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/WindowsLiveWriterSunflowerDerbyherewecome_D34AIMG_1425_thumb.jpg\" width=\"253\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/WindowsLiveWriterSunflowerDerbyherewecome_D34AIMG_1432.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_1432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/WindowsLiveWriterSunflowerDerbyherewecome_D34AIMG_1432_thumb.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When we got to Jacksonville, the party had already started.&#160; Uncle Andy and Poppa had gone to Tyler and bought new cowboy hats.&#160; Uncle Andy helped Noelle decorate a bucket hat from his cowboy hat lining.&#160; It was the cutest thing!<\/p>\n<p>Saturday night we went to the Sunflower Gala with the family.&#160; It had a derby theme this year.&#160; Community members could purchase a horse in advance to decorate to raise money for the hospital.&#160; At the gala, all the &quot;owners&quot; raced their horses.&#160; Dad&#8217;s horse was named &quot;Doctor Neches&quot; in honor of Dad&#8217;s Neches River conservation work.&#160; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; When we got to Jacksonville, the party had already started.&#160; Uncle Andy and Poppa had gone to Tyler and bought new cowboy hats.&#160; Uncle Andy helped Noelle decorate a bucket hat from his cowboy hat lining.&#160; It was the cutest thing! Saturday night we went to the Sunflower Gala with the family.&#160; It had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}