{"id":6,"date":"1972-05-01T00:01:52","date_gmt":"1972-05-01T07:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/?p=6"},"modified":"2022-07-03T14:12:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T21:12:50","slug":"1972-may-ish-letter-from-jed-to-gh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1972\/05\/01\/1972-may-ish-letter-from-jed-to-gh\/","title":{"rendered":"1972, May-ish: Letter from Jed to G&#038;H"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_759\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 242px\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/1972\/05\/balloon-stationery-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"Letter, showing the clown picture and the sticker balloons\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-759\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Letter, showing the clown picture and the sticker balloons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\">This letter is in Marcy\u2019s writing; presumably I dictated it, though as usual Marcy may well have cleaned up some of my phrasing.<\/p>\r\n<p>It\u2019s on fairly heavy lined paper preprinted with art showing a clown (and a small dog) being lifted up by four balloons. The balloons were preprinted as dashed-line circles, and I then put a circular blue sticker on each one (which is how the stationery was designed to be used).<\/p>\r\n<p>The stationery was also designed to be folded into thirds, and then sealed using two more balloon stickers. On the other side of the folded-into-thirds paper (not shown here) is space for the address and return address, so this stationery needed no envelope.<\/p>\r\n<p>The letter is undated and has no postmark, but the stamp on it is the <a href=\"https:\/\/postalmuseum.si.edu\/exhibition\/about-us-stamps-modern-period-1940-present-commemorative-issues-1970-1979-1972-1973\">8-cent Old Faithful commemorative<\/a>, issued on March 1, 1972, so this letter was presumably mailed sometime between that date and June 16, the graduation date that Marcy mentions at the end of this. She was presumably referring to Peter\u2019s graduation from UC Berkeley; the \u201cEnglish requirement\u201d was presumably the one that Peter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/2021\/11\/30\/peter-requests-an-exemption\/\">wrote a letter\/paper about<\/a>, asking to be excused from it.<\/p>\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_763\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/1972\/05\/seal-300x145.jpg\" alt=\"Outside of letter, showing stickers to seal it\" width=\"300\" height=\"145\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-763\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Outside of letter, showing stickers to seal it<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>Dear Grandma and Grandpa<\/p>\r\n<p>Thank you for the stationery with the balloons on it. I really like them. I pasted all the balloons on myself. My friend Jeremy has a new house. He used to live in my courtyard. One day he brought a story of <u>the<\/u> <u>Red<\/u> <u>Balloon<\/u> over to my house, and then he brought a football. But it wasn\u2019t for me; it was his. <u>The<\/u> <u>Red<\/u> <u>Balloon<\/u> is about a little boy named Pascal. And he found a balloon one day on a lamp post. So he put down his wunch bag (oops\u2014lunch bag) and climbed up the pole and took the balloon down with the string in his mouth.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"text-right\">Love,<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"text-right\">Jed<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\">p.s. I have a lunchbox that has astronauts on it. They are riding up in a rocket ship up to the moon.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"text-right\">J.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\">p.s. from mama: Graduation is June 16 at 4 pm. English requirement ok!<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In which balloon stationery makes me think of <cite>The Red Balloon<\/cite>.<\/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-6","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\/6","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=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":768,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}