{"id":2223,"date":"2015-04-14T14:24:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T14:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/?p=2223"},"modified":"2015-04-14T14:26:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T14:26:20","slug":"reunion-buddies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/reunion-buddies\/","title":{"rendered":"Reunion Buddies!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/reunion-buddy-title_edited-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"reunion buddy title_edited-1\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"reunion buddy title_edited-1\" src=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/reunion-buddy-title_edited-1_thumb.jpg\" width=\"321\" height=\"415\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2>Get the family reunion started early!<\/h2>\n<p>If you\u2019re looking for a fun ice breaker activity and a way to generate interest in your upcoming family reunion try \u201cReunion Buddies\u201d and get the&#160; party started before the&#160; reunion even&#160; begins.<\/p>\n<h2>Reunion B<strong>uddies<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>About four weeks before your reunion make a double sided copy of the \u201cReunion&#160; Buddies\u201d&#160; printable using the same&#160; information on each side of the paper.<\/p>\n<p>Match family members up into buddies making sure everyone, young and old has a reunion&#160; buddy.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Write one buddies name on the line that says \u201cMy Name Is\u201d and write their buddies\u2019 name below it on the line that says \u201cMy Buddy Is\u201d.&#160; You will need to do this on both sides of the&#160; paper but reversing the information.<\/p>\n<p>Send a copy of the reunion buddies printable to one of the&#160; \u201cbuddies\u201d with&#160; the&#160; instructions to fill out their&#160; personal information and then mail the&#160; completed&#160; form to their buddy. Be sure and provide an address and if your reunion has the funds, a stamped envelope.<\/p>\n<p>The buddy they mail the form to will complete the form and return it to back to their buddy.<\/p>\n<p>Encourage buddies to spend some time with each other at your family reunion&#160; perhaps even bringing inexpensive gifts (such as their favorite candy bar) to share.&#160; You may even ask some family members to share what they learned about their reunion buddy.<\/p>\n<p>The idea behind&#160; \u201cReunion Buddies\u201d&#160; is to&#160; make long lasting friendships&#160; between cousins, aunts and uncles and grandparents.&#160; Get a new buddy every year!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/finalrb_edited-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"finalrb_edited-5\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"finalrb_edited-5\" src=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/finalrb_edited-5_thumb.jpg\" width=\"449\" height=\"580\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get the family reunion started early! If you\u2019re looking for a fun ice breaker activity and a way to generate interest in your upcoming family reunion try \u201cReunion Buddies\u201d and get the&#160; party started before the&#160; reunion even&#160; begins. Reunion &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/reunion-buddies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[500,48,214,226,27,43],"tags":[618,133,234,728,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2224,"href":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions\/2224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}