{"id":19335,"date":"2022-04-03T13:14:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T20:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=19335"},"modified":"2022-04-03T13:15:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T20:15:10","slug":"family-letters-late-1971","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2022\/04\/03\/family-letters-late-1971\/","title":{"rendered":"Family letters: late 1971"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Apparently these family-letters posts are all I\u2019m using my blog for these days. Some day I\u2019ll get back to posting other things too.<\/p>\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n<p>This week in my family history project: A letter from my father (about birthday presents and parapsychology), a letter from my mother (about Marmite and winter clothes), and a postcard \u201cfrom\u201d me (about Children\u2019s Fairyland), all written in late 1971 and early 1972.<\/p>\r\n<dl>\r\n  <dt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1971\/11\/02\/1971-november-2-letter-from-peter-to-gh\/\">November 2, 1971<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>In which Peter asks his parents to read <cite>Pursuit of Loneliness<\/cite> (as a birthday present to Peter), asks his parents to join a pyramid scheme, and describes a psi experiment that he\u2019s planning.<\/dd>\r\n  <dd>\u201cyou\u2019d stand to realize, if the chain remained unbroken, [\u2026] the sum of TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS.\u201d<\/dd>\r\n  <dt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1971\/11\/10\/1971-november-10-letter-from-marcy-to-gh\/\">November 10, 1971<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>In which Marcy extols the virtues of Marmite, asks George and Helen to send winter clothes, and recounts Jay\u2019s vocabulary.<\/dd>\r\n  <dd>\u201cA thick black sauce, it tastes almost unbearable just plain, but verra verra tasty mixed in with bland things like cream cheese\u201d<\/dd>\r\n  <dt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1972\/01\/16\/1972-january-16-postcard-from-jed-to-gh\/\">January 16, 1972<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>In which Jed and Laurel go to Children\u2019s Fairyland.<\/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-19335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-familyhistory"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19335","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=19335"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19338,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19335\/revisions\/19338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}