{"id":15668,"date":"1968-02-02T00:00:50","date_gmt":"1968-02-02T00:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/letters\/letters_from_marcy_1968-02-02.html"},"modified":"2018-01-04T06:07:36","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T06:07:36","slug":"letters-from-marcy-1968-02-02","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/marcy\/1968\/02\/02\/letters-from-marcy-1968-02-02\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters from Marcy #32: 2 February 1968"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_15881\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/marcy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/01\/Charlotte-Sherman-painting.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/marcy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/01\/Charlotte-Sherman-painting-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Charlotte Sherman painting postcard\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15881\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Charlotte Sherman painting postcard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<p>Handwritten on a notecard that had been sold as a benefit to support an organization called Transport A Child, &#8220;working to promote quality integrated education in Los Angeles.&#8221; The art on the front of the card was an oil painting by &#8220;the renowned California artist, Charlotte Sherman.&#8221; (A later letter was typed on another notecard of this same design.)<\/p>\r\n<p>The flower here was a little drawing at the top of the letter; I assume Marcy drew it, but I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/marcy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/12\/marcy-drawing-flower-small.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/marcy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/12\/marcy-drawing-flower-small.jpg\" alt=\"Flower\" width=\"104\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15816\" \/><\/a>\r\n<p class=\"text-right\">Friday<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"text-right\">day off<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"text-right\">hurray for 3-day weekends!<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"clear:both\">Hullo.<\/p>\r\n<p>People keep giving ridiculous stationery to the school, so I&#8217;ve no excuse not to use it. Thanks for the potato latkes recipe&#8212;tried them in blender &amp; meat grinder (got the latter from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blue_Chip_Stamps\">blue chip stamps<\/a>&#8212;say, do <u>you<\/u> save them? there are some baby things I&#8217;d like to get, like a stainless steel feeding cup &amp; spoon (for later) &amp; blankets &amp; things) &amp; it&#8217;s much the best in the blender&#8212;grating I&#8217;d never do. Peter accuses me of holding out on him &#8217;cos I never made them before&#8212;wow, they really taste good after a long time.<\/p>\r\n<p>[Note written in margin: Try cooked buckwheat groats (kasha) instead of flour&#8212;no egg needed.]<\/p>\r\n<p>Have been getting lots of baby things&#8212;looks like all I&#8217;ll need will be diapers, undershirts, diapers, pins, a few light blankets, diapers, nursing bras, diapers, and diapers. I am so big I stare at my profile in disbelief&#8212;seems like someone else, which sure enough it is. Surely will be between March 10-20, but feels like tomorrow&#8212;his head is down now, feels like making-ready position. Kids are all drawing pictures of pregnant ladies with inside view of baby.<\/p>\r\n<p>Yes, the car is fixed. No, don&#8217;t know when we&#8217;ll go to Seattle&#8212;probably Sept, not later.<\/p>\r\n<p>Love from Peter, &amp; Marcia<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>Postmark: Fort Bragg, CA, Feb 2, 1968. Handwritten: &#8220;Rec\u2019d this 2\/5\/68&#8221; and &#8220;Ans. this 2\/16.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jed.hartman\/posts\/10214324031434587\">Facebook post for this letter<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On latkes and baby prep. \u201cI am so big I stare at my profile in disbelief\u2014seems like someone else, which sure enough it is.\u201d","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-parents","category-mendocino"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/marcy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/marcy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/marcy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/marcy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/marcy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15668"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/marcy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15919,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/marcy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15668\/revisions\/15919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/marcy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/marcy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/marcy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}