{"id":19382,"date":"2022-05-15T19:26:26","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T02:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=19382"},"modified":"2022-05-15T19:26:26","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T02:26:26","slug":"family-letters-late-1972-early-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2022\/05\/15\/family-letters-late-1972-early-1973\/","title":{"rendered":"Family letters: Late 1972, early 1973"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>This week in my family history project: A Marine World visit; a letter from Peter explaining how much debt we were in; a response from Grandpa George advising us on how to deal with the debt; a letter from Peter and Marcy explaining that the debt wasn\u2019t such a big deal after all.<\/p>\r\n<dl>\r\n  <dt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1972\/11\/01\/1972-november-ish-letter-from-marcy-to-gh\/\">November-ish, 1972<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>A Marine World visit, plus assorted other tidbits.<\/dd>\r\n  <dd>\u201cman puts head between jaws of killer whale:::Peter: \u2018Hey, Jed, look at that! What do you think of that?\u2019 Jed: \u2018Oh, yeah, I saw that on television.\u2019\u201d<\/dd>\r\n  <dt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1973\/01\/04\/1973-january-4-letter-from-peter-to-gh\/\">January 4, 1973<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>Peter describes the amounts of money that we owed to various organizations and people.<\/dd>\r\n  <dd>\u201cwe have not forgotten our obligation to you, but they\u2019ve turned off the water and, and, and\u2026\u201d<\/dd>\r\n  <dt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1973\/01\/08\/1973-january-8-letter-from-george-to-peter\/\">January 8, 1973<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>A copy of a letter from George! One of the very few letters-from-Grandparents in this family-letters archive. In this one, George expresses consternation about the amount of our debt.<\/dd>\r\n  <dd>\u201cNot that we can help that much financially, but the burden is just too great for anybody to be living almost from hand to mouth and always behind.\u201d<\/dd>\r\n  <dt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1973\/01\/15\/1973-january-15-letter-from-peter-and-marcy-to-gh\/\">January 15, 1973<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>Peter and Marcy attempt to reassure George that their financial situation isn\u2019t so bad after all.<\/dd>\r\n  <dd>\u201cPlease bear in mind that Peter\u2019s original estimate was somewhat on the negative side because he was very depressed & worried about that late paycheck, & also because I do most of the keeping track of funds & he wasn\u2019t aware of what had already been paid.\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-19382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-familyhistory"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19382","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=19382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19383,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19382\/revisions\/19383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}