{"id":66,"date":"2006-09-22T19:42:35","date_gmt":"2006-09-23T01:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dulcimers.com\/sharonsblog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2006-09-23T17:26:02","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T23:26:02","slug":"joy-in-small-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"Joy in small things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mom knew us!<\/p>\n<p>We visited her the first thing Wednesday a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Her glasses were broken so she had to squint to see, but I asked if she knew me and she said, &#8220;Yes, you&#8217;re Sharon.&#8221;  I was so relieved.  <\/p>\n<p>I said to her, &#8220;You told me you&#8217;d remember me and you did. Thank you!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And then to make things better she said, without prompting, &#8220;Hi, John.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s gained a little weight.  She had just had her hair done and she looked lovely. <\/p>\n<p>I see a real improvement in her from day to day.  The stimulation of family and the extra attention brings out the best in her.  Today she looked at a photo I&#8217;d brought her of her siblings.  She recited their names, all seven of them!<\/p>\n<p>We had the bow replaced on her glasses, tomorrow there&#8217;ll be shopping for some new clothes for her, Tuesday we have a dental appointment for her.     Being a daughter in this situation is a full time job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mom knew us! We visited her the first thing Wednesday a.m. Her glasses were broken so she had to squint to see, but I asked if she knew me and she said, &#8220;Yes, you&#8217;re Sharon.&#8221; I was so relieved. I said to her, &#8220;You told me you&#8217;d remember me and you did. Thank you!&#8221; And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2006-fall-adventures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}