{"id":2315,"date":"1979-01-22T00:01:12","date_gmt":"1979-01-22T08:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/?p=2315"},"modified":"2022-12-03T22:33:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T06:33:32","slug":"1979-january-22-letter-from-jed-to-gh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1979\/01\/22\/1979-january-22-letter-from-jed-to-gh\/","title":{"rendered":"1979, January 22: Letter from Jed to G&H"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Starting off 1979 with a one-page letter from me, in pencil, on lined three-hole-punched paper.<\/p>\r\n

This is my second of only three letters that I wrote them entirely in cursive. My handwriting was pretty good by this point.<\/p>\r\n

It\u2019s been a while since I\u2019ve listed everyone\u2019s ages. Here are our ages in early 1979:<\/p>\r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n
Name<\/th>\r\n Age<\/th>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n
Helen<\/td>\r\n nearly 71<\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n
George<\/td>\r\n 66<\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n
Peter<\/td>\r\n 39<\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n
Marcy<\/td>\r\n 35<\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n
Jed<\/td>\r\n 10<\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n
Jay<\/td>\r\n 8<\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n<\/table>\r\n
\r\n

January 22, 1979<\/p>\r\n

Dear Grandma and Grandpa,<\/p>\r\n

Thank you for the Tri-ominoes game that you sent me for Christmas. It\u2019s just what I wanted, and now we have a new game to play.<\/p>\r\n

Uncle John and Aunt Vicki sent us two things: a big book called \u201cSpacecraft-2000 to 2100 A.D.\u201d, which is a science fiction book about spaceships in the future, with color pictures for each one, and they also sent us a game called \u201cQuest of the Magic Ring\u201d that the main idea of it is taken from the \u201cLord of the Rings\u201d trilogy. We all really like the game.<\/p>\r\n

Uncle David and Aunt Karen sent a small book of things to make and do to Joaquin and me, and Uncle Paul and Aunt Linda sent roller skates to Joaquin and me. They said in a letter that we could trade them in for money or anything else we wanted if we didn\u2019t want the skates, and I got a string art design like the one we sent you, only much smaller.<\/p>\r\n

My Grandma that lives in Philadelphia sent us all twenty-five dollars, part of which Marcy is using to take Joaquin and me to \u201cThe Barber of Seville\u201d. Joaquin and I enjoyed a capsule version of it in school.<\/p>\r\n

Speaking of school, last Thursday my teacher took me to a violin solo done by a girl she knows. I especially liked the Bartok folk songs.<\/p>\r\n

I\u2019ve been having a good time in school. A report card is coming up in February. Joaquin and I can see each other at recess anytime.<\/p>\r\n

Love,<\/p>\r\n

Jed<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

Notes<\/h2>\r\n
\r\n
Spacecraft: 2000 to 2100 AD<\/cite>, by Stewart Cowley<\/dt>\r\n
For a bit more about this book, see the Terran Trade Authority website<\/a>.<\/dd>\r\n
Quest of the Magic Ring<\/dt>\r\n
I remember liking this boardgame<\/a> quite a bit, but I haven\u2019t played it since I was a kid; dunno how well it would hold up.<\/dd>\r\n
Peter and Marcy read The Lord of the Rings<\/cite> aloud to us at some point around here, but I\u2019m not sure exactly when.<\/dd>\r\n
Barber of Seville<\/cite><\/dt>\r\n
I remember bits of the abridged version in school\u2014I think actors from a local production were visiting schools to perform bits of it\u2014but I don\u2019t remember seeing the full show.<\/dd>\r\n
violin performance<\/dt>\r\n
I remember Mrs. Peters taking me to one or two classical-music performances, but I don\u2019t recall the performances themselves. Before I read this letter, if you had asked me if I liked Bartok, I would have said I didn\u2019t think I had heard any.<\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I describe the Christmas presents that various family members sent us. \u201cthey also sent us a game called \u2018Quest of the Magic Ring\u2019 that the main idea of it is taken from the \u2018Lord of the Rings\u2019 trilogy. We all really like the game.\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":[5,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-jed","category-palo-alto"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315","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=2315"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2380,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions\/2380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}