{"id":1758,"date":"1975-01-15T00:01:07","date_gmt":"1975-01-15T08:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/?p=1758"},"modified":"2022-08-28T13:16:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T20:16:58","slug":"1975-january-15-letter-from-marcy-to-gh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1975\/01\/15\/1975-january-15-letter-from-marcy-to-gh\/","title":{"rendered":"1975, January 15: Letter from Marcy to G&#038;H"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>A short letter on a 6\"x8\" piece of heavy-ish paper designed to be folded and sealed and mailed without an envelope. The back of the paper has printed on it a nice line-art-and-watercolors(?) picture of assorted vegetables.<\/p>\r\n<p>Marcy didn\u2019t put a date on the letter, but the postmark says January 15, 1975, and Helen at some point wrote that same date at the top of the letter.<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\">Dear Grandfolks<\/p>\r\n<p>Just wanted to let you know we haven\u2019t forgotten you \u2014 but the germs & the realtors have a conspiracy to keep us from mailing our New Years Presents (we already gave up on Christmas) till Easter. The germs aren\u2019t even willing to re-negotiate \u2014 and boy, do they ever have a strong union. But the vitamins are <strike>xxx<\/strike> on our side, that\u2019s the union we recognize, and we\u2019ll win, we\u2019ll get those packages off \u2014 but how can we ever tell you how much we appreciated yours? Some reallll winners, I\u2019ll have to say. The trains are just out of sight! They owned the lvg room for a while. love, Marcy<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<h2>Notes<\/h2>\r\n<dl>\r\n  <dt>realtors<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>We were in the process of selling the house; see next couple of letters for more.<\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A placeholder note to let George and Helen know we haven\u2019t forgotten them. \u201cthe germs &#038; the realtors have a conspiracy to keep us from mailing our New Years Presents (we already gave up on Christmas) till Easter\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-marcy","category-hearthlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1767,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions\/1767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}