{"id":14312,"date":"2024-11-28T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racheldelafuente.com\/blog\/?p=14312"},"modified":"2024-11-25T12:24:36","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T17:24:36","slug":"thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racheldelafuente.com\/blog\/thank-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div>\n<p>Last year, I saw a bunch of Thanksgiving posts about being grateful for stationery and decided I wanted to write my own this year. Of course, I didn&#8217;t count on giving myself such a busy blog schedule for November. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That said, I do want to take a moment to say thank you. I appreciate every one of you who reads my blog posts. While I <em>could<\/em> technically write all of this with no one but myself as an audience, it wouldn&#8217;t be anywhere near as fun. It means so much to me that you take time out of your busy days to read what I&#8217;ve written. And even more when you leave comments to let me know your thoughts. I write this all for your enjoyment, as much as mine, so feedback is good!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope, wherever you are, and whether you celebrate Thanksgiving or not, that you&#8217;re having a lovely day, and that you get to enjoy a wonderful holiday season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick thank you to my readers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/racheldelafuente.com\/blog\/thank-you\/\">Keep Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thank you<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"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":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-about-me","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/racheldelafuente.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/thankYou_featured.jpg?fit=288%2C288&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Z77k-3IQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15393,"url":"https:\/\/racheldelafuente.com\/blog\/8-years\/","url_meta":{"origin":14312,"position":0},"title":"Eight Years and Here&#8217;s to Many more","author":"Rachel","date":"June 15, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Today marks eight years and 795 posts \u2014 including this one \u2014 since I started my blog. 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