{"id":196,"date":"2009-05-19T18:23:26","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T23:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/?p=196"},"modified":"2009-05-19T18:24:04","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T23:24:04","slug":"carls-graduates-celebrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/2009\/05\/carls-graduates-celebrate\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl&#8217;s Graduates &#8212; CELEBRATE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carl graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) Saturday May 16.\u00a0 It was a great day.\u00a0 We were blessed to have family present.\u00a0 Cindy&#8217;s parents flew up from FL and my parents drove in from IA.\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-197\" title=\"Carl the graduate\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2009\/05\/carl-close-with-leighs-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"Carl the graduate\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2009\/05\/carl-close-with-leighs-224x300.jpg 224w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2009\/05\/carl-close-with-leighs-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2009\/05\/carl-close-with-leighs.jpg 1704w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The one thing we didn&#8217;t plan for was the sun and the photo shows that it was sunny.\u00a0 The high was only to be 62 with a breeze and we were outside for the opening ceremony and the engineering college ceremony.\u00a0 All told about 5 hours with the wait ahead of time to get seats.\u00a0 So we all got too much sun and feel it now.<\/p>\n<p>After graduation we had pizza all together.\u00a0 FUN.<\/p>\n<p>CONGRATULATIONS CARL!<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=196&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) Saturday May 16.\u00a0 It was a great day.\u00a0 We were blessed to have family present.\u00a0 Cindy&#8217;s parents flew up from FL and my parents drove in from IA.\u00a0 The one thing we didn&#8217;t plan for was the sun and the photo shows that it was sunny.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Carl&#039;s Graduates - CELEBRATE! 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