{"id":667,"date":"2014-12-29T20:06:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T04:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/?p=667"},"modified":"2015-08-20T16:47:03","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T00:47:03","slug":"speaking-of-grandkids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/?p=667","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of grandkids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of grandkids, I&#8217;ll speak to the ones I know about, of Chena and me:  Max and Ben.<\/p>\n<p>On Nov. 22, 2014, Max got married to his partner of 9 years Sophia Snyder in Jamaica Plain (Boston), MA.   It was a lovely wedding.   The families then spent a few days after in a house off Cape Cod.   It was very relaxing, reading, game-playing, walking in the woods.    Sophia works for HarvardX and Max continues to play contradance music around the U.S. and Canada as well as organizing dance weekends and helping the contradance community where he can.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sophia-Max-bw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sophia-Max-bw-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sophia-Max-bw\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sophia-Max-bw-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sophia-Max-bw-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sophia-Max-bw.jpg 899w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wedding-party-outside.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wedding-party-outside-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Wedding party outside\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wedding-party-outside-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wedding-party-outside-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wedding-party-outside.jpg 964w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben and his long time girlfriend Lauren were of course at the wedding and after.  Ben is working for the State of Alaska Dept. of Transportation in Anchorage providing needed computer support for the department throughout Southcentral Alaska.  Lauren has finishing her medical technology certification requirements and hopes to be working in the field shortly.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lauren-Ben-outside.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lauren-Ben-outside-257x300.jpg\" alt=\"Lauren-Ben-outside\" width=\"257\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lauren-Ben-outside-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lauren-Ben-outside.jpg 529w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of grandkids, I&#8217;ll speak to the ones I know about, of Chena and me: Max and Ben. On Nov. 22, 2014, Max got married to his partner of 9 years Sophia Snyder in Jamaica Plain (Boston), MA. It was a lovely wedding. The families then spent a few days after in a house off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":678,"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}