{"id":530,"date":"2008-05-10T07:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-10T07:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog2\/2008\/05\/the-card-i-would-mail\/"},"modified":"2008-05-10T07:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-10T07:07:00","slug":"the-card-i-would-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/the-card-i-would-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"The Card I Would Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"

I blew it this year in terms of buying Mother’s Day cards on time. But — <\/p>\n

Oh, Mommy!! How I love you.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because of that day you put me in a navy blue velvet party dress and brushed my hair into a bun and said we were going to Old McDonald’s Farm for the day.<\/p>\n

For always being so happy to see me that you cry a little bit when we visit.<\/p>\n

When you pronounced the air Out West to be so good you’d like to “bottle it.”<\/p>\n

For driving all those times with Laura’s doll head hidden on your shoulder and not noticing it.<\/p>\n

The way you love my kids.<\/p>\n

Because you are so pretty, and always were, that I named my favorite doll after you.<\/p>\n

Because you never wear any makeup, even at age 68!<\/p>\n

For saying, “So, transfer!” when I was miserable at Trinity, my first college — and so I did. You made it seem possible.<\/p>\n

Because of the intense, sensory-filled way that you nurture and nourish your loved ones: with food, music, stories, sweet-smelling hugs, laughter, and even anger that is brief and just.<\/p>\n

Because you are the sweetest person I know.<\/p>\n

I love you, Mom! Happy Mother’s Day!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I blew it this year in terms of buying Mother’s Day cards on time. But — Oh, Mommy!! How I love you. Because of that day you put me in a navy blue velvet party dress and brushed my hair into a bun and said we were going to Old McDonald’s Farm for the day. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSTth-8y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}