{"id":175351726,"date":"2013-02-15T16:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotidiantruth.posterous.com\/postcard-reminders"},"modified":"2013-02-15T16:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T16:36:00","slug":"postcard-reminders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/truth\/2013\/02\/15\/postcard-reminders\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcard reminders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My grandmother turned 85 in January. She doesn&#8217;t have much beyond a grade school education yet she is one of the smartest people I know. She didn&#8217;t have her first airplane ride until she was well into her 40s, and she once told me she never thought she&#8217;d ever travel overseas. Since the age of 70, she has been to England and Italy, and has added several places to her list of U.S.A. destinations &#8212; including Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, California, Washington, and now&#8230; Hawaii. Gran has always reminded me of how lucky I am to have the opportunities to travel and see the world. She has seen a fraction of the planet compared to me, and I know she is very happy for me that I&#8217;ve had the good fortune to be able to travel and live in other places.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today I received this in the mail from her:<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-175351726 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/truth\/2013\/02\/15\/postcard-reminders\/postcard-reminders-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/truth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/02\/Photo_Feb_16_12_36_35_AM-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Todays&#8217; truth is this: Happiness is receiving a postcard from your gran, from a place <em>you&#8217;ve<\/em> never been but she has. It makes me extraordinarily happy. There is <strong>so much<\/strong> in this. You go, Gran! I love you so much! xoxoxo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My grandmother turned 85 in January. She doesn&#8217;t have much beyond a grade school education yet she is one of the smartest people I know. She didn&#8217;t have her first airplane ride until she was well into her 40s, and she once told me she never though&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/truth\/2013\/02\/15\/postcard-reminders\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[297,298,126],"class_list":["post-175351726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-grandmother","tag-postcard","tag-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3rl4S-bRKZE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/truth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175351726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/truth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/truth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/truth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/truth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175351726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/truth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175351726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/truth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175351726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/truth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175351726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/truth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175351726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}