{"id":19609,"date":"2022-12-24T14:55:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T22:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=19609"},"modified":"2023-08-13T23:28:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T06:28:20","slug":"family-letters-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2022\/12\/24\/family-letters-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"Family letters: 1980"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Here are five letters and cards from 1980, the last year of Marcy\u2019s life, plus a couple of non-letter items.<\/p>\r\n<dl>\r\n  <dt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1980\/01\/07\/1980-january-7-letter-from-peter-to-gh\/\">January 7, 1980<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>General life update from Peter.<\/dd>\r\n  <dd>\u201cwe now have [a] really nice [housemate]: Ed, who\u2019s an ex-Alaskan ex-helicopter mechanic, now going to massage school & Stanford pre-medical classes\u201d<\/dd>\r\n  <dt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1980\/02\/14\/1980-february-14-valentine-from-jay\/\">February 14, 1980<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>A valentine made by Jay, featuring a doily decorated to look like a pig.<\/dd>\r\n  <dt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1980\/04\/01\/1980-spring-poem-for-jay\/\">Spring, 1980<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>Marcy didn\u2019t often write poems. This one, about flying dragon kites, was for my brother.<\/dd>\r\n  <dd>\u201cMy heart longs for the green hills[\u2026]\u201d<\/dd>\r\n  <dt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1980\/05\/11\/1980-may-11-collage-from-peter\/\">May 11, 1980<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>Appears to be a Mother\u2019s Day card\/collage made by Peter, for Helen. (But may have been made 30 years earlier, dunno.)<\/dd>\r\n  <dt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1980\/07\/19\/1980-july-19-letter-from-marcy-to-gh\/\">July 19, 1980<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>General updates from Marcy: missing Peter (who was away at a math class); seeing friends; notes about the flowers and birds; finding out we didn\u2019t have to move; summer school; swimming lessons; more.<\/dd>\r\n  <dd>\u201cI\u2019m beginning to learn to breathe.\u201d<\/dd>\r\n  <dt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1980\/09\/22\/1980-september-22-card-from-marcy-to-gh\/\">September 22, 1980<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>A brief postcard about Jay\u2019s baseball photos.<\/dd>\r\n  <dt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1980\/10\/03\/1980-october-3-letter-from-marcy-to-gh\/\">October 3, 1980<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>In her final letter to George and Helen, Marcy describes our new piano, and invites G&H to come visit. The invitation gets a little silly.<\/dd>\r\n  <dd>\u201cWe\u2019d all love to see you, and hope you will accept this fine offer, Mr. and Mrs Hartfelt.\u201d<\/dd>\r\n  <dt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1980\/11\/10\/1980-november-10-card-from-marcy-to-paul-linda\/\">November 10, 1980<\/a><\/dt>\r\n  <dd>The last known letter that Marcy wrote, written and postmarked the day before she died: a notecard, written to my uncle Paul and aunt Linda about the impending birth of my cousin.<\/dd>\r\n  <dd>\u201cI guess I\u2019ve come to Orcas Island to be healed, but whether or not the physical healing takes place, a growth in spirit is already evident.\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-19609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-familyhistory"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19609","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=19609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19611,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19609\/revisions\/19611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}