{"id":6987,"date":"2013-03-13T16:52:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T23:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=6987"},"modified":"2013-03-13T19:45:17","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T02:45:17","slug":"a-wonderful-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2013\/03\/a-wonderful-story\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wonderful Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/family-tree.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6988\" alt=\"family tree\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/family-tree.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/family-tree.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/family-tree-269x300.jpg 269w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m at 9,300 words in my grandmother&#8217;s history. This week I have written about forbidden marriages, ocean voyages, WWII valor, sacrifice, family traditions, family recipes, and a lullaby. I&#8217;ve gazed at baby pictures of people I only knew after they had wrinkles. I have laughed, I have cried. I have seen how my great-grandfather looked in Paris and smiled at his beret. My source materials include letters written in the 1990&#8217;s to me, copious notes from Grandma&#8217;s stories, photographs that Paige took of photo albums and objects, my great-grandmother&#8217;s collection of newspaper clippings and photos, slides that I have painstakingly scanned over the years, and previous histories and careful genealogy work by my dad and aunt. I have had a Finnish letter translated. I have hoarded and identified every photo I can get my hands on. We have done some of my family&#8217;s temple work. Whenever I revisit family history, it fills my life.<\/p>\n<p>My mom just finished her parents&#8217; history and shared it with us on Sunday. It is a treasure and I came to love my grandparents even more through the reading of it.<\/p>\n<p>The more I learn, the more I see that Norman Rockwell was painting OUR STORY! That little redhead on the top could be my Mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m at 9,300 words in my grandmother&#8217;s history. This week I have written about forbidden marriages, ocean voyages, WWII valor, sacrifice, family traditions, family recipes, and a lullaby. I&#8217;ve gazed at baby pictures of people I only knew after they had wrinkles. I have laughed, I have cried. I have seen how my great-grandfather looked &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2013\/03\/a-wonderful-story\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Wonderful Story<\/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":[8,11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church","category-extended-family","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6987","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=6987"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6995,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6987\/revisions\/6995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}