{"id":19330,"date":"2022-03-27T10:53:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T17:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=19330"},"modified":"2023-08-13T23:40:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T06:40:18","slug":"family-letters-august-1971","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2022\/03\/27\/family-letters-august-1971\/","title":{"rendered":"Family letters: August, 1971"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I\u2019m posting four cards and letters this week instead of the usual three; this week covers the rest of our family\u2019s 1971 trip to Philadelphia to see my mother\u2019s mother.<\/p>\r\n<p>It also features the first two letters \u201cfrom\u201d me\u2014at least one of them includes at least one direct quote from me, but I\u2019m otherwise uncertain to what degree I really had anything to do with them.<\/p>\r\n<dl>\r\n  <dt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1971\/08\/02\/1971-august-2-postcard-from-marcy-to-gh\/\">August 2, 1971<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>A postcard from Wyoming. \u201cWyoming is very conscious of children.\u201d<\/dd>\r\n  <dt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1971\/08\/03\/1971-august-3-postcard-from-jed-to-gh\/\">August 3, 1971<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>In which 3-year-old Jed sees a bear at Yellowstone. \u201cbears are dangerous & they can swat you with their paws\u201d<\/dd>\r\n  <dt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1971\/08\/09\/1971-august-9-letter-and-postcard-from-jed-to-grandparents\/\">August 9, 1971<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>Letter \u201cfrom\u201d Jed to George and Helen, along with passing along a postcard from Jed to Ethel. \u201cPlease keep this postcard for me till I get there.\u201d<\/dd>\r\n  <dt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1971\/08\/18\/1971-august-18-letter-from-marcy-to-gh\/\">August 18, 1971<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>The only substantial missive in this week\u2019s batch.<\/dd>\r\n  <dd>Marcy describes the trip to Philadelphia and how her mother was doing. \u201cperhaps the most useful thing of all (for the trip, anyway) was leaving <em>all that<\/em> extraneous junk behind\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":[32,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-familyhistory","category-travel"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19330","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=19330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19332,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19330\/revisions\/19332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}