{"id":12648,"date":"2016-09-29T12:27:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T18:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=12648"},"modified":"2016-09-29T22:25:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T04:25:29","slug":"in-a-time-before-texting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2016\/09\/in-a-time-before-texting\/","title":{"rendered":"In a time before texting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/wp-1475172611224.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12647\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/wp-1475172611224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"693\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/wp-1475172611224.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/wp-1475172611224-195x300.jpg 195w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/wp-1475172611224-664x1024.jpg 664w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We were reading the Bible as a family on Monday night and Mark was using my childhood scriptures. He found this note in the pages, written to my friend Thora when I was his age.<\/p>\n<p>This note is one of the earliest surviving documents of the first time I decided to change my name to Angela. Back and forth, Angie and Angela have taken turns my whole life.<\/p>\n<p>It also shows how I had an early interest in animals, which promptly disappeared after I finished a degree in Biology with a Zoology emphasis.<\/p>\n<p>It shows the development of my handwriting style. I think I was imitating someone popular, who was\u00a0actually very mean.<\/p>\n<p>When Mark found this note he just laughed and handed it to Richard. I cringed and laughed and sent a picture of it to my friend Thora, who still has cute hair, while I still wonder if anyone likes mine. It awakened all sorts of preadolescent demons in my mind.<\/p>\n<p>Be careful what you leave in your scriptures. You never know who will find it.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were reading the Bible as a family on Monday night and Mark was using my childhood scriptures. He found this note in the pages, written to my friend Thora when I was his age. This note is one of the earliest surviving documents of the first time I decided to change my name to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2016\/09\/in-a-time-before-texting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In a time before texting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,13,17,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-home-evening","category-family-time","category-fun-finds","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12648"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12651,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12648\/revisions\/12651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}