{"id":111333,"date":"2022-06-25T14:41:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=111333"},"modified":"2022-06-25T14:47:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:47:55","slug":"letter-from-grandmother-dana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/letter-from-grandmother-dana\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters with Grandmother Dana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I still have the first letter I wrote to my Oregon grandparents:<\/p>\n<p><em>I want to see you. The leaves are falling. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>My grandmother, Dana, noted on my letter the date it was received: Oct. 13, 1971. And the she replied on a card postmarked the next day, Oct. 14, 1971:<\/p>\n<p><em>Dearest Dee \u2026 Granddad and I were so very happy to get your lovely letter yesterday. Your handwriting is really beautiful, honey, and we\u2019ll always treasure this \u201cfirst letter.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>If I were writing to her today, I would say the same thing:<em> I want to see you. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>Honest, heartfelt:<em> I want to see you. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>And because she was magical and had ESP, I think she would write back the very next day.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dearest Dee \u2026. I want to see you too \u2026 Imagine we are walking at Smith Rock in Central Oregon and it is a beautiful spring day and we are talking about books and dreams and hopes for the future. And after a wonderful hike with family and the schnauzers, we will go to Juniper Junction for huckleberry ice cream\u2026\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Oh how wonderful it is to see you again!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-111423\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/letters-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/letters-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/letters-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/letters-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/letters-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/letters-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I still have the first letter I wrote to my Oregon grandparents: I want to see you. The leaves are falling. My grandmother, Dana, noted on my letter the date it was received: Oct. 13, 1971. And the she replied on a card postmarked the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111333"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111517,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111333\/revisions\/111517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}