{"id":22978,"date":"2011-12-16T09:39:49","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T14:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=22978"},"modified":"2015-12-27T15:47:24","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T20:47:24","slug":"better-late-than-never-santa-shows-support-for-the-doc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=22978","title":{"rendered":"Better Late Than Never: Santa Shows Support for the DOC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Santa,<\/p>\n<p>I love that you support the diabetes community, but just so know, <a href=\"http:\/\/diabetessocmed.com\/wdd-blue-fridays-initative\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Fridays<\/a> were last month.<\/p>\n<p>Yours,<\/p>\n<p>Jess<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/santa-in-blue2.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-22981 aligncenter lazyload\" title=\"santa in blue\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/santa-in-blue2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"368\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/santa-in-blue2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/santa-in-blue2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/santa-in-blue2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/santa-in-blue2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/santa-in-blue2-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/santa-in-blue2-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/santa-in-blue2.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":53098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1501],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.9 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - 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