{"id":806,"date":"1972-09-06T00:01:19","date_gmt":"1972-09-06T07:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/?p=806"},"modified":"2022-07-03T14:19:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T21:19:43","slug":"1972-september-6-letter-from-marcy-to-gh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1972\/09\/06\/1972-september-6-letter-from-marcy-to-gh\/","title":{"rendered":"1972, September 6: Letter from Marcy to G&H"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
\"Art:
Art: Bird, branches, and berries<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n

Handwritten on two sheets of roughly 6\"x8\" notepaper. The first page was designed to fold in thirds and be its own envelope; the second page was just folded inside of the first. The bird art shown here is preprinted on the outside\/back of the first page. No artist credit given.<\/p>\r\n

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6 September, nearly<\/p>\r\n

Dear Gran\u2019ma and Gran\u2019pa,<\/p>\r\n

Hi and hello, and thanks for all the goodies. Specially the stationery\u2014this is the free sample they sent. Enjoyed the catalog immensely. And all the goodies via David & Karen\u2014I love<\/u> those tiny tupperwares. Use them constantly. Jed thinks his Jacket is wonderful\u2014he needed it, too. And the napkins were (are) great\u2014they\u2019re our favorites. A number of things around the house have taken on status of \u201cfrom Gramma\u201d\u2014even ones that aren\u2019t. The Mickey Mouse towel is one of your biggest hits, still, and the 3-duck washcloths that we\u2019ve had for so long. Joaquin lost his down the toilet 2 months ago and still mourns it. (\u201cmy ducky-towel gone! Maintoo (maintence) men get it back!\u201d) He\u2019s finally learned what that appliance is for, by the way, tho not ready to use it all the time.<\/p>\r\n

Big Interview next week in Tracy (60 mi East of here, South of Fresno) Actually this is the second for this job\u2014already met the director and evidently cleared that hurdle, as we\u2019re all invited to meet the rest of the staff & see how we look to them & they to us. Hopefully, all will be decided at that point, as a few fat paychecks ($9000 per annum) would be mighty nice around now\u2014as our beloved ol\u2019 heap picked yesterday to play its ace in xxx<\/strike> the hole. xxx<\/strike> After months of piddling\u2014xxx<\/strike> leak here, there xxx<\/strike> horn failure, over here something else it finally took the BIG STEP and threw a rod. Got us home from S.F. (xxx<\/strike> quick trip to the Ocean to celebrate Labor Day)\u2014which a mechanic friend says isn\u2019t hardly possible. Like we had one chance in a hundred of getting here before acute shutdown set in. And we did. So it\u2019s really a good and loveable ol beast after all, and all VW\u2019s throw a rod sometime or another. Trying to decide whether to invest in getting it running before we try to sell it. We\u2019d like to get a Ford or Dodge Van or GMC Travelall and<\/u> a tiny BMW car<\/u> (really a superfine motorcycle with 2 extra wheels and a body) for Peter to commute if<\/u> we do live in Berkeley and work in Tracy. which might happen. Peter says to say at this point \u201cIf it\u2019s not one thing, it\u2019s another.\u201d Consider it said.<\/p>\r\n

and off to baid\u2014er, bed.<\/p>\r\n

love,<\/p>\r\n

all of us<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A thank-you note and general life update, featuring news about a potential job, the car, and some washcloths, among other things. \u201cit finally took the BIG STEP and threw a rod. Got us home from S.F. (quick trip to the Ocean to celebrate Labor Day)\u2014which a mechanic friend says isn\u2019t hardly possible.\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":[3,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-marcy","category-awareness-house"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","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=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":836,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}