{"id":2642,"date":"1985-02-26T00:01:00","date_gmt":"1985-02-26T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/?p=2642"},"modified":"2023-02-26T11:26:58","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T19:26:58","slug":"1985-february-26-letter-from-jay-to-gh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1985\/02\/26\/1985-february-26-letter-from-jay-to-gh\/","title":{"rendered":"1985, February 26: Letter from Jay to G&#038;H"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Half-page handwritten letter, on lined three-hole-punched paper. Undated, but postmarked 26 February 1985.<\/p>\r\n<p>Here are our ages in early 1985:<\/p>\r\n<table style=\"width: 40%; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 15px;\">\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <th>Name<\/th>\r\n    <th>Age<\/th>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td>Helen<\/td>\r\n    <td>77<\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td>George<\/td>\r\n    <td>nearly 73<\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td>Peter<\/td>\r\n    <td>45<\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td>Jed<\/td>\r\n    <td>nearly 17<\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td>Jay<\/td>\r\n    <td>nearly 15<\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\">Dear Grandma & Grandpa<\/p>\r\n<p>Thank You very much for the hat and scarf I use them everday while doing my paper route in the morning. Peter is going to get me some running <strike>shoes<\/strike> spikes for my birthday, and I don\u2019t know what else anyone is getting. I guess I\u2019m not having a birthday party this year. <strike>xxx<\/strike> Track season just started, and we had time trials <strike>this<\/strike> last Friday, and we have a meet this Friday, I ran a 5:11 mile in the time trials, which is pretty good for a preseason time, especially since I\u2019m only a freshman. Once again thank you for the hat and scarf.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"text-right\">Love,<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"text-right\">Joaquin<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thank-you note from Jay. \u201cI ran a 5:11 mile in the time trials, which is pretty good for a preseason time, especially since I\u2019m only a freshman.\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":[8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-jay","category-palo-alto"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642","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=2642"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2711,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions\/2711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}