{"id":20552,"date":"2023-08-17T16:10:07","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T23:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=20552"},"modified":"2023-08-17T16:10:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T23:10:07","slug":"marcys-birthday-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2023\/08\/17\/marcys-birthday-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcy\u2019s birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Today would have been my mother\u2019s 80th birthday.<\/p>\r\n<p>I can\u2019t really imagine her at 80\u2014she died at age 37. What would she have been like if she\u2019d had another 43 years? I can make guesses\u2014I imagine that, like many other people, she would have stayed fundamentally herself, while still growing and changing over time\u2014but still, hard for me to imagine.<\/p>\r\n<p>My parents\u2019 birthdays and death anniversaries are often hard for me, but this time I seem to be fine. Some minor anxiety surges yesterday, but nothing major. Got about ten hours of sleep last night (extremely unusual for me). Planning to take things easy today.<\/p>\r\n<p>As I\u2019ve noted before, I don\u2019t have a FB album specifically of photos of Marcy, but I do have two albums that include a bunch of photos of her:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.10213537446890465&type=3\">Photos of Marcy\u2019s family, early 1900s through 1974<\/a>.<\/li>\r\n  <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.10205684571933499&type=3\">Photos of her and Peter and me and Jay, 1968 through 1979<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>The particular photo I\u2019m thinking of today is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=10207212913461082&set=a.10205684571933499\">last one I have of her<\/a>, taken in 1980, a few months before she died.<\/p>\r\n<p>Hugs to all who knew her.<\/p>\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":[118,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parents-children","category-photos"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20552","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=20552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20553,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20552\/revisions\/20553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}