{"id":1025,"date":"2011-12-30T13:19:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T18:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.mom\/blog\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2020-09-25T15:01:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T20:01:41","slug":"matt-okeefes-photos-from-the-seven-holiday-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/matt-okeefes-photos-from-the-seven-holiday-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Holiday Party Photos by Matt O&#8217;Keefe"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1027\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1027\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/31408987@N04\/6538589935\/in\/set-72157628485586183\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1027 size-full\" title=\"6538586777_250b796de6\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/6538586777_250b796de6.jpg\" alt=\"Folks congregating\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/6538586777_250b796de6.jpg 500w, https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/6538586777_250b796de6-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/6538586777_250b796de6-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1027\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pre-Bowling Warm Ups<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Keeping one&#8217;s senses in tact is not usually something to which holiday party revelers aspire. Thankfully, we have <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/people\/matt-okeefe.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matt O&#8217;Keefe<\/a> as one of our helmers, and he managed to not only take <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/31408987@N04\/sets\/72157628485586183\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">these amazing photos<\/a> of Seven&#8217;s holiday bash, he also proved to be a wicked good candlepin bowler.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1028\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1028\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/31408987@N04\/6538589935\/in\/set-72157628485586183\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1028 size-full\" title=\"6538556785_98e23bfb15\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/6538556785_98e23bfb15.jpg\" alt=\"Bowling shoes\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/6538556785_98e23bfb15.jpg 500w, https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/6538556785_98e23bfb15-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/6538556785_98e23bfb15-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1028\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Candlepin Kit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1039\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1039\" style=\"width: 375px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/31408987@N04\/6538589935\/in\/set-72157628485586183\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1039 size-full\" title=\"6538557925_57e90cac7a\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/6538557925_57e90cac7a.jpg\" alt=\"Kids bowling\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/6538557925_57e90cac7a.jpg 375w, https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/6538557925_57e90cac7a-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 85vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1039\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The kids show us how to roll a strike!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A great time was had by all, especially the youngsters who showed us all a thing or two about bowling stamina and the thrill of the gutter ball!<\/p>\n<p>Awards were handed out for best form, worst form, and highest and lowest scores. Although the night had to end, most of us were lingering until the folks at Sacco&#8217;s Bowl Haven politely told us it was time to give up the lanes for the next round of patrons.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to<strong> Staci Sommers<\/strong> for her decorating expertise and for making all party goers feel like we had entered a winter wonderland instead of a bowling alley bar; and thanks to Karl Borne who not only thought up the awards categories, but who chose the prizes for each, and then handed them out with aplomb and holiday cheer! Happy Holidays to everyone and we look forward to seeing you in 2012!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1033\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1033\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/31408987@N04\/6538564653\/in\/set-72157628485586183\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1033 size-full\" title=\"6538564653_1716d3e6ce_m\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/6538564653_1716d3e6ce_m.jpg\" alt=\"Karl makes an announcement\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1033\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karl B. the evening&#8217;s master of ceremonies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping one&#8217;s senses in tact is not usually something to which holiday party revelers aspire. Thankfully, we have Matt O&#8217;Keefe as one of our helmers, and he managed to not only take these amazing photos of Seven&#8217;s holiday bash, he also proved to be a wicked good candlepin bowler. A great time was had by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/matt-okeefes-photos-from-the-seven-holiday-party\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Seven Holiday Party Photos by Matt O&#8217;Keefe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12324,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions\/12324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.mom\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}