{"id":19366,"date":"2022-05-01T11:41:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T18:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=19366"},"modified":"2022-05-01T11:41:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T18:41:12","slug":"family-letters-fall-1972-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2022\/05\/01\/family-letters-fall-1972-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Family letters: Fall 1972, part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>This week in my family history project: some items that aren\u2019t exactly letters, plus one letter. All from mid- to late-1972 (I think).<\/p>\r\n<dl>\r\n  <dt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1972\/06\/23\/1972-june-23-postcard-from-jed-to-gh\/\">June 23, 1972<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>A postcard that just has my name written on it. (Written by me, age 4+.)<\/dd>\r\n  <dt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1972\/09\/01\/1972-fall-ish-list-of-awareness-house-names\/\">Fall-ish, 1972<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>Peter\u2019s list of his suggestions for names for \u201cthe house where i work.\u201d (Where he was working as a drug abuse counselor.) Examples: \u201cthe polyphase transformer\u201d; \u201cthe hyperbolic paraboloid\u201d; \u201calter-nation.\u201d<\/dd>\r\n  <dt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1972\/09\/06\/1972-september-6-letter-from-marcy-to-gh\/\">September 6, 1972<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>(This one is in the form of a real letter, unlike the others I\u2019m posting this week.)<\/dd>\r\n  <dd>A thank-you note and general life update, featuring news about a potential job, the car, and some washcloths, among other things.<\/dd>\r\n  <dd>\u201cit finally took the BIG STEP and threw a rod. Got us home from S.F. (quick trip to the Ocean to celebrate Labor Day)\u2014which a mechanic friend says isn\u2019t hardly possible.\u201d<\/dd>\r\n  <dt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1972\/09\/07\/1972-september-7-compound-interest-calculations-from-peter\/\">September 7, 1972<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>Peter demonstrates how compound interest works, in great detail.<\/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-19366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-familyhistory"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19366","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=19366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19368,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19366\/revisions\/19368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}