{"id":298,"date":"1970-03-29T00:01:55","date_gmt":"1970-03-29T08:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/?p=298"},"modified":"2022-07-03T14:10:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T21:10:14","slug":"1970-march-29-letter-from-marcy-to-gh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1970\/03\/29\/1970-march-29-letter-from-marcy-to-gh\/","title":{"rendered":"1970, March 29: Letter from Marcy to G&#038;H"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Three-page handwritten letter on 7\"x9\" paper. Easter in 1970 was March 29 (the day after my second birthday), and I\u2019m assuming that \u201cEaster evening\u201d means the evening at the end of Easter Sunday.<\/p>\r\n<p>My brother Jay (referred to here as Joaquin) was about a month old.<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p class=\"text-right\">Easter evening<\/p>\r\n<p>Hi!<\/p>\r\n<p>Hope your Easter Sunday was a sun-filled & joyous day of beginnings of Spring. Joaquin & Marcy got up at Dawn to nurse & meditate\u2026\u2026 Here at last are the pictures. Joaquin changes so every day, you\u2019d hardly recognize he\u2019s the same. Still looks a lot like his paternal grandpa at times, tho. More letter coming soon, but for now we\u2019re rushing to get the pictures in the mail before he\u2019s 80, or 64, or even 6 months. love,<\/p>\r\n<p>P, M, J & J<\/p>\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n<p>p.s. Jed was absolutely delighted with the card \u2013 he just latched on to it & kept holding it & we had to read it to him about 30 times. He really loved having a birthday. And many thanks for the check. He may get a new ball with it \u2013 the one you sent for Christmas got left on the (floor) heater overnight recently, and <u>shrank<\/u>! (shrunk?) to a small, square-ish soft block. But he still carries it around to throw. love again<\/p>\r\n<p>P, M, J & J<\/p>\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n<p>And a third page:<\/p>\r\n<p>The package came today. Jed opened it all by himself \u2013 he just loves the animals. Is learning how to take Pooh Bear\u2019s shirt off, & put on one of Joaquin\u2019s undershirts instead. Maybe he\u2019ll diaper him later. Went to sleep still hugging him. The rabbit is a lovely cuddly, too. He\u2019s in a nest made of the dress, which is really neat; wonderful colors.<\/p>\r\n<p>Peter is Rototilling the back yard. He is accepted at U.C. \u2013 more details later, when we know what they are.<\/p>\r\n<p>Love a 3rd time<\/p>\r\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_312\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 310px\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/1970\/03\/PJJM-monogram-300x140.jpg\" alt=\"Monogram combining the letters P, J, J, and M\" width=\"300\" height=\"140\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-312\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Monogram combining the letters P, J, J, and M<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>By <i>accepted at u.c.<\/i>, she meant accepted as an undergrad at UC Berkeley. Peter had been in college twice before, at Caltech and University of Washington, but hadn\u2019t graduated either time; now, at age 30, he was going back to school.<\/p>\r\n<p>I think that monogram must have been something that Marcy just made up on the spot; I don\u2019t recall ever seeing it in any other context.<\/p>\r\n<p>I assume that the photos that she was sending were these: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=10205876576773500\">Jay 1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=10205876595293963\">Jay 2<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=10205876581373615\">Jay 3<\/a>. (I especially like that third one.)<\/p>\r\n<p>I\u2019m guessing that the mentioned rabbit was a stuffie that I kept for many years, named Hoppity. I have a vague idea that around the time I went off to college, I gave it away or threw it away (I think it was a little threadbare by then). Now I wish I had kept it.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In which Marcy sends photos of Jay, and some thank-yous, and assorted other news. \u201cJed was absolutely delighted with the card \u2013 he just latched on to it &#038; kept holding it &#038; we had to read it to him about 30 times.\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":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-marcy","category-post-harbinger"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","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=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}