{"id":19403,"date":"2022-05-29T12:42:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T19:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=19403"},"modified":"2023-08-13T23:40:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T06:40:01","slug":"family-letters-mid-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2022\/05\/29\/family-letters-mid-1973\/","title":{"rendered":"Family letters: mid-1973"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>This week in my family history project:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>Peter is unhappy about his work situation.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Notes about what Jay and I want to be when we grow up and how Marcy\u2019s garden is going.<\/li>\r\n  <li>We suddenly shift course and start a foster home.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<dl>\r\n  <dt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1973\/04\/16\/1973-16-april-letter-from-peter-to-gh\/\">April 16, 1973<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>In which Peter is unhappy about his work situation. \u201ceven though on the surface, mine seems like a very beautiful job (and is in some ways), yet there are many other hidden factors which are leading me to seek another position.\u201d<\/dd>\r\n  <dt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1973\/05\/10\/1973-may-10-letter-from-marcy-and-peter-to-gh\/\">May 10, 1973<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>Assorted updates: What Jay and I want to be when we grow up; a visit from Uncle Paul; Peter helps a suicidal man change his life; how Marcy\u2019s garden is going; Peter plans to get a graduate degree in Psych.<\/dd>\r\n  <dd>\u201cJoaquin will be in the orchestra too, after he\u2019s finished being a refrigerator truck.\u201d<\/dd>\r\n  <dt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1973\/09\/01\/meta-hearthlight-big-changes-in-1973\/\">Mid- to late 1973<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>Meta writeup from me: Not a letter, but a description of what was going on in the six-month gap between the previous letter and the next substantive dated one (which I\u2019ll post in a couple weeks).<\/dd>\r\n  <dd>The biggest thing that happened during that gap is that Peter and Marcy started \u201cHearthlight,\u201d a foster home for (as they phrased it at the time) \u201cmentally and emotionally disturbed teenagers.\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-19403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-familyhistory"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19403","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=19403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19404,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19403\/revisions\/19404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}