{"id":19300,"date":"2022-02-06T07:07:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T15:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=19300"},"modified":"2022-02-06T07:31:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T15:31:09","slug":"family-letters-mid-1969-plus-thoughts-on-moving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2022\/02\/06\/family-letters-mid-1969-plus-thoughts-on-moving\/","title":{"rendered":"Family letters: mid-1969, plus thoughts on moving"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

I knew that we had moved around a fair bit when I was a kid, but until I looked at these family letters, I hadn\u2019t realized quite how often:<\/p>\r\n

We moved at least five times before I was 18 months old. (And to a different town\/city each time.) I\u2019ve started mapping our moves<\/a>; so far I\u2019ve only listed the first four moves (five locations), but there\u2019s at least one more coming in the next couple of weeks.<\/p>\r\n

And then we moved at least eight more times during the next 17 years, before I graduated from high school. But at least that pace meant we were averaging 2 or 3 years in a given house or apartment instead of the 3 months or so average in my first couple of years. :) \u2026Meanwhile, my grandparents George and Helen were at the same address in Tacoma for the entire nearly-30-year span of these letters. G&H had moved around a fair bit in their younger days, but by 1968 Helen was 60 and George was 56, and they stayed in that Tacoma house for decades.<\/p>\r\n

Since I returned to California after college, in 1991, I\u2019ve moved only four times; averaging about 6 years per location, and all of those places have been in Mountain View, all within about a 2-mile radius. (And I\u2019ve been in my current house for 12+ years.) I didn\u2019t hate moving around as a kid, but I suspect that all that moving was part of what\u2019s led me to want to stay in one place as an adult.<\/p>\r\n

\r\n

Onward to this week\u2019s letters:<\/p>\r\n

\r\n
July 23, 1969<\/a><\/dt>\r\n
Peter suggests to his parents that they should write a book about how (not) to be bad parents. \u201cthe book would be entitled, 'How to Help Your Children Become Juvenile Delinquents'\u201d<\/dd>\r\n
July 31, 1969<\/a> (postcard)<\/dt>\r\n
Marcy lets G&H know that she\u2019s pregnant. \u201cNext grandchild due in Jan, Feb, or March\u201d<\/dd>\r\n
August 21, 1969<\/a><\/dt>\r\n
Peter and Marcy and I visit Peter\u2019s brothers in prison. \u201cwhat a lovely birthday present. It was just what we needed, at that very moment, due to circumstances which will presently unfold.\u201d<\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-familyhistory"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19300"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19304,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19300\/revisions\/19304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}