{"id":5769,"date":"2012-05-13T10:41:37","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T17:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=5769"},"modified":"2012-05-13T10:41:37","modified_gmt":"2012-05-13T17:41:37","slug":"mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2012\/05\/mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5770\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5770\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/1974-Angie-baby-4-generations.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5770\" title=\"4 generations: Can you recognize me? I'm the bald one.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/1974-Angie-baby-4-generations.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/1974-Angie-baby-4-generations.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/1974-Angie-baby-4-generations-300x279.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/1974-Angie-baby-4-generations-321x300.jpg 321w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5770\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">4 generations: Can you recognize me? I&#39;m the bald one.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;m thankful for the mothers in my life. My mother, who gave me just about everything and my grandmothers who carried faith, traditions, etiquette, and propriety through the generations. I&#8217;m glad to have elements of a Victorian woman in my own skill set because it&#8217;s kept me out of some trouble.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thankful for the women who have mothered me, even though I was not their own. Some had children of their own to love; others did not. My experience has taught me that they, too are mothers.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a big fan of Mother&#8217;s Day for my own benefit. I don&#8217;t want a lot of fuss made about the &#8220;sacrifices&#8221; of motherhood. Frankly, I&#8217;m living the life I always wanted. I don&#8217;t need a cake to compensate for my time! I love to being a mother. I always have.<\/p>\n<p>I will be accepting extra hugs and kisses from my children all day today. Happy Mother&#8217;s Day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thankful for the mothers in my life. My mother, who gave me just about everything and my grandmothers who carried faith, traditions, etiquette, and propriety through the generations. I&#8217;m glad to have elements of a Victorian woman in my own skill set because it&#8217;s kept me out of some trouble. I&#8217;m thankful for the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2012\/05\/mother\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mother<\/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":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extended-family","category-family-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5769","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=5769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5777,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5769\/revisions\/5777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}