{"id":1866,"date":"1976-02-22T00:01:01","date_gmt":"1976-02-22T08:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/?p=1866"},"modified":"2022-09-18T10:29:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T17:29:35","slug":"1976-february-22-letter-from-jay-to-gh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1976\/02\/22\/1976-february-22-letter-from-jay-to-gh\/","title":{"rendered":"1976, February 22: Letter from Jay to G&#038;H"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Handwritten by Jay in a green thin marker or thick pen, on unlined paper. (The lines of text are impressively straight given the lack of ruled lines on the paper; I don\u2019t think I had yet written them a letter without ruled lines to keep my text straight.) At some point, Helen added a date: \u201cFeb 22 \u201976 (6 yrs old).\u201d<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>DEAR GRAND MA + PA<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\">I LEARNED HOW TO DO<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\">TRiCKS ON MY BiKE.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\">LIKE RiDE WiTH THE<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\">PALMS OF MY HANDS<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\">AND COAST. I CAN DO<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\">MiNUSES ON MY MATH<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\">PAGE AT<strike>x<\/strike> SCHOOL. GOOD BYE<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\">LOVe,JOAQUiN<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>(The <i>S<\/i> at the end of the word <i>TRiCKS<\/i> is written backwards; given that the rest of the <i>S<\/i>s in the letter are forward, I suspect that was intentional.)<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A note from Jay about bike tricks and doing math.<\/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":[8,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-jay","category-cotati"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866","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=1866"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1902,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions\/1902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}