{"id":19514,"date":"2022-08-14T16:08:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T23:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=19514"},"modified":"2022-08-14T16:08:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T23:08:13","slug":"family-letters-august-november-1974","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2022\/08\/14\/family-letters-august-november-1974\/","title":{"rendered":"Family letters: August\u2013November 1974"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I\u2019ve fallen a couple of weeks behind in posting links to family-history letters. So here\u2019s a catchup post.<\/p>\r\n<p>Things I\u2019ve posted in the past couple weeks include a set of daily what-I\u2019m-grateful-for lists from Marcy, a recipe, some pages from my childhood journal (which I used mostly for practicing writing words), a couple of notes from Jay by way of Marcy, and three thank-you-and-life-updates letters from Marcy.<\/p>\r\n<p>Specifically:<\/p>\r\n<dl>\r\n  <dt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1974\/08\/30\/1974-august-marcys-gratitude-lists\/\">August, 1974<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>A dozen daily lists of things that Marcy was grateful for.<\/dd>\r\n  <dt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1974\/08\/31\/date-unknown-recipe-for-turkey-loaf-shepherds-pie\/\">Date unknown<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>Recipe for Turkey Loaf Shepherd\u2019s Pie. The only recipe that I have in Marcy\u2019s handwriting.<\/dd>\r\n  <dt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1974\/09\/01\/1972-1974-jeds-journal\/\">1972\u20131974<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>Jed\u2019s journal. In which Jed writes his name, the alphabet, some book titles, and some knock-knock jokes.<\/dd>\r\n  <dt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1974\/09\/03\/1974-september-3-letter-from-marcy-to-gh\/\">September 3, 1974<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>In which we get a foster dog, and Marcy and Robert and the dog do a late-night drive to pick up George from the airport.<\/dd>\r\n  <dd>\u201cthey\u2019d been adopted by \u2018the most wonderful puppy in the world\u2019 but their landlady was very uptight about dogs\u2026\u201d<\/dd>\r\n  <dt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1974\/09\/06\/1974-september-6-kid-art-from-jay\/\">September 6, 1974<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>More kid art by Jay, with description. This time: ducks, trucks, and dolphins.<\/dd>\r\n  <dt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1974\/09\/28\/1974-september-28-letter-from-marcy-to-gh\/\">September 28, 1974<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>A thank-you note and general life update from Marcy.<\/dd>\r\n  <dd>\u201cPeter just gave me a haircut\u2014looks good but it\u2019s a little too short\u2014\u2019Quin got one, too, but Jed is still a longhair.\u201d<\/dd>\r\n  <dt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1974\/11\/18\/1974-november-18-letter-from-marcy-to-gh\/\">November 18, 1974<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>A letter from Marcy during a trip (with me and Jay) to see Marcy\u2019s mother in Philadelphia.<\/dd>\r\n  <dd>\u201cVacations sure are nice\u2014nice when they\u2019re over, too.\u201d<\/dd>\r\n  <dt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1974\/11\/19\/1974-november-note-from-joaquin-to-gh\/\">November(?), 1974<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>A note from Jay by way of Marcy.<\/dd>\r\n  <dd>\u201cThe people that \u2018gave\u2019 me my new shoes gave me a balloon, and it never popped, but once it did.\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-19514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-familyhistory"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19514","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=19514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19516,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19514\/revisions\/19516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}