{"id":523,"date":"2010-03-29T10:16:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T14:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gargoyle:8011\/?p=523"},"modified":"2010-03-29T10:16:55","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T14:16:55","slug":"turning-forty-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/?p=523","title":{"rendered":"Turning Forty-Three&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gargoyle:8011\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/2010-03-24a.jpg\" title=\"2010-03-24a.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gargoyle:8011\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/2010-03-24a.jpg\" title=\"2010-03-24a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gargoyle:8011\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/2010-03-24a.jpg\" alt=\"2010-03-24a.jpg\" height=\"645\" width=\"515\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I recently celebrated my forty-third birthday&#8230;..forty-three&#8230;I just had to type that again.\u00a0 How time flies&#8230;as they say&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Well, it was my first birthday without my mother.\u00a0 And I knew it would be a bit emotional to not see or hear from my her.\u00a0 It made me want to go and find some photos of my mom when she was my age.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t find a lot&#8230;as most moms&#8230;we are usually the ones BEHIND the camera, not in front of it&#8230;.after about an hour long search, I found two photos.\u00a0 One is of my mom, one of my brothers and me on my fourth birthday.\u00a0 The other one is from Easter of that same year, also with my mom and some of my brothers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gargoyle:8011\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/2010-03-24b.jpg\" title=\"2010-03-24b.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gargoyle:8011\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/2010-03-24b.jpg\" title=\"2010-03-24b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gargoyle:8011\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/2010-03-24b.jpg\" alt=\"2010-03-24b.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In both photos, I&#8217;m wearing dresses that my grandmother made for me.\u00a0 I loved that purple dress.\u00a0 It was one of my favorites.\u00a0 She also made my Barbie a matching one.\u00a0 My mom didn&#8217;t change much year to year&#8230;.she looks almost identical in this picture as the day she died&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently celebrated my forty-third birthday&#8230;..forty-three&#8230;I just had to type that again.\u00a0 How time flies&#8230;as they say&#8230; Well, it was my first birthday without my mother.\u00a0 And I knew it would be a bit emotional to not see or hear from my her.\u00a0 It made me want to go and find some photos of my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/?p=523\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Turning Forty-Three&#8230;.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","category-reflections"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p172S4-8r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}