{"id":7207,"date":"2013-12-23T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/?p=7207"},"modified":"2020-06-22T16:41:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T20:41:55","slug":"tripcentral-ca-reunites-sisters-holidays-ireland-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/tripcentral-ca-reunites-sisters-holidays-ireland-bc\/","title":{"rendered":"tripcentral.ca Reunites Sisters for Holidays from Ireland to BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/khA1ADtnyKw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>HAMILTON, ON &#8211; On November 25, 2013, Maryalice Wood from British Columbia was selected as a winner in tripcentral.ca\u2019s Home for the Holidays contest. She wrote a poem in hopes of bringing her stepmother\u2019s sister home from Ireland.\u00a0 Pam, Maryalice\u2019s 81-year-old stepmom had not seen her 72-year-old sister in years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe has always been a great support to me. We talk nearly everyday\u2026.It\u2019s just part of Christmas. I didn\u2019t think about it being any other way,\u201d said Pam about her sister, Mary.<\/p>\n<p>The reunion took place in Pam\u2019s home in British Columbia. tripcentral.ca was there to capture the moment.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/homefortheholidays\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video\u00a0of Pam and Mary\u2019s reunion<\/a> on December 18 can be viewed on the tripcentral.ca website.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the contest was to fly a loved one living far away to Canada in time for the holidays. tripcentral.ca offered to provide up to two round-trip flights from anywhere in the world to make someone\u2019s holiday special.<\/p>\n<p>The Home for the Holidays contest was open to Canadians from November 5 to November 18, 2013 and required entrants to submit a letter about their loved one and an accompanying photo. It received over 400 entries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAMILTON, ON &#8211; On November 25, 2013, Maryalice Wood from British Columbia was selected as a winner in tripcentral.ca\u2019s Home for the Holidays contest. She wrote a poem in hopes of bringing her stepmother\u2019s sister home from Ireland.\u00a0 Pam, Maryalice\u2019s 81-year-old stepmom had not seen her 72-year-old sister in years. \u201cShe has always been a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":7737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":""},"categories":[3551,3543],"tags":[],"modified_by":"Amanda Stancati","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7207"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22170,"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7207\/revisions\/22170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}