{"id":548,"date":"1971-08-09T00:01:21","date_gmt":"1971-08-09T07:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/?p=548"},"modified":"2022-07-03T14:12:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T21:12:49","slug":"1971-august-9-letter-and-postcard-from-jed-to-grandparents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1971\/08\/09\/1971-august-9-letter-and-postcard-from-jed-to-grandparents\/","title":{"rendered":"1971, August 9: Letter and postcard from Jed to grandparents"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Apparently what happened here is that Marcy wrote a postcard on my behalf on August 2 and mailed it (from South Dakota) to her mother (Ethel). Then when we arrived in Philadelphia a week later, she wrote a brief letter on my behalf to George and Helen, and included the postcard that we had previously mailed to Ethel.<\/p>\r\n<p>I don\u2019t know whether either of these were dictated in any way by me, or whether Marcy was just writing as if from my perspective.<\/p>\r\n<p>The letter was folded in thirds; on the back, across the folded-over edge, is a drawing of some kind of creature (perhaps a dog?) and a flower. I\u2019m guessing that Marcy drew that.<\/p>\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_587\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/1971\/08\/dog-flower-drawing-300x178.jpeg\" alt=\"Animal and flower\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-587\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Animal and flower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p class=\"text-right\">Monday 10 pm<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"text-right\">(I\u2019ll write<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"text-right\">tomoro\u2014<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"text-right\">Marcy)<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\">Dear Grandma<\/p>\r\n<p>We just got to my other Grandma's house. I wanted to send you this picture of the burros, but there was already writing on it, so we have to put it in an envelope to send to you. We <strike>xxx<\/strike> saw donkeys and a camel. Do you have our Rum pum pum book? (The Little Drummer Boy)<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"text-right\">I love you<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"text-right\">and Grandpa too<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"text-right\">Jed<\/p>\r\n<p>I miss you, too! <span class=\"jed-note\">That line was presumably from Marcy.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_571\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/1971\/08\/burros-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"Burros\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-571\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Burros<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<p>Here\u2019s the postcard we had sent to Ethel:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p class=\"text-right\"><strike>xxx<\/strike> Monday morning<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\">Dear Grandma<\/p>\r\n<p>These are burros. Yesterday we saw some donkeys & a camel. Please keep this postcard for me till I get there. We are coming to see you<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"text-right\">Love, Jed<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>I think I\u2019m missing a joke\u2014I\u2019m not sure why the caption on the picture of burros says \u201cHere\u2019s my Sweetheart.\u201d (The printed text on the card says \u201cSweethearts of the Desert\u201d and \u201cColor by Mike Roberts, Berkeley, Calif. 94710.\u201d) A web search leads me to several other postcards that show two burros and a caption having to do with desert sweethearts, so maybe that was just a common trope.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letter \u201cfrom\u201d me to George and Helen, and passing along an earlier postcard that had been from me to Ethel. \u201cPlease keep this postcard for me till I get there.\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":[12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uc-berkeley","category-from-jed"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","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=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}