{"id":2369,"date":"2005-02-15T22:21:48","date_gmt":"2005-02-16T06:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm2\/2005\/02\/15\/sitting-on-the-back-porch\/"},"modified":"2005-02-15T22:21:48","modified_gmt":"2005-02-16T06:21:48","slug":"sitting-on-the-back-porch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/2005\/02\/15\/sitting-on-the-back-porch\/","title":{"rendered":"Sitting on the back porch."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I miss sitting on the back porch.  My Great Grandma Henson and I would always sit on the back porch after dinner. She would smoke a cigarette and I would sit with her enjoying the weather and watching the cars go past the mall parking lot directly ahead.<\/p>\n<p>We would sit on the back porch and talk and bridge the almost eighty years that separated us.<\/p>\n<p>I miss Grandma Henson.  She was a woman whose wisdom I didn&#8217;t have the capacity to appreciate at my young age, and whose wisdom I desperately seek.<\/p>\n<p>How do you go on for eighty years and find the strength of convictions to become the pillar bridging the rent in a family?<\/p>\n<p>Where does the unmatched energy and grace come from when you&#8217;re matching the unbridled energy of a seven year old?<\/p>\n<p>Where do you find the strength to outlive your husband and son, yet still mow your own lawn at the age of 75?<\/p>\n<p>I miss sitting on the back porch.  I miss my grandmother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I miss sitting on the back porch. My Great Grandma Henson and I would always sit on the back porch after dinner. She would smoke a cigarette and I would sit with her enjoying the weather and watching the cars go past the mall parking lot directly ahead. We would sit on the back porch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}