{"id":2030,"date":"2009-05-10T09:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-10T13:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=2030"},"modified":"2009-05-10T09:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-10T13:57:00","slug":"mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=2030","title":{"rendered":"Mother&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I had nightmares all night.  In one, my mother had been unjustly convicted of stealing fine art and sentenced to three years in prison in New Zealand.  I think my brain picked New Zealand because that&#8217;s as far away from here as you can get and still stay on the planet, although I was staying in New Zealand to work on her release.  I had done a documentary on this particular prison, so I knew it wasn&#8217;t as bad as it could be, because I could still send her books.  Turns out she was going to a different one that didn&#8217;t allow books.  Talk about torture!  I was hatching elaborate schemes to send magazines (which were allowed) and somehow smuggle in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceagecity.com\/bradbury\/medicinefor.htm\" target=\"blank\">short stories<\/a> disguised as feature articles.  It was all very disturbing.<\/p>\n<p>I guess all this means that I love my mom and would hate be separated from her.  I think she&#8217;ll get an extra big hug when I see her today.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/93468786@N00\/3485954620\/\" title=\"Sandy on swing by emisanboo, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3605\/3485954620_225cab261d.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Sandy on swing\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Happy Mother&#8217;s Day!<\/h2>\n<p><i>(Please stay away from New Zealand.)<\/i><\/center><br \/>\n<br clear=all><\/p>\n<p><i>ETA:<\/i>  My mother the comedian just called.<\/p>\n<p><b>Me:<\/b>  Hello?<br \/>\n<b>Her:<\/b>  Now, they&#8217;re only giving me one phone call&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I had nightmares all night. In one, my mother had been unjustly convicted of stealing fine art and sentenced to three years in prison in New Zealand. I think my brain picked New Zealand because that&#8217;s as far away from here as you can get and still stay on the planet, although I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}