{"id":487,"date":"2012-08-14T23:22:27","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T23:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=487"},"modified":"2012-08-14T23:22:27","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T23:22:27","slug":"memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=487","title":{"rendered":"Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Run: \u00a05 x 400&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>When we were on our vacation to Iowa, we drove past the two houses where I lived while growing up. \u00a0From the time I was 3-13 we lived in a itty-bitty house on Kinsey. \u00a0I remember my Dad mowing the yard, painting the house, putting in a new fence between our house and the neighbors. \u00a0It was a very nice, little house.<\/p>\n<p>When I was 13 we moved to a larger house on John Patterson Rd. \u00a0This was definitely a step up as far as houses went and this is where we lived until I finished high school and got married after college.<\/p>\n<p>So, we drove by the houses. \u00a0My heart sank when I saw the little house on Kinsey. \u00a0It is very tired and has had a hard life. \u00a0I think of all the hours my parents put into making it look nice and the pride they took in that house and it made me sad.<\/p>\n<p>Then we drove to John Patterson Rd. \u00a0That house is looking great! \u00a0We had had two locust trees in the front yard and now they are huge! \u00a0The house is freshly painted and the yard nicely kept. \u00a0That was great!<\/p>\n<p>Now, no one in the family even lives in the State, let alone in any of those houses but it was lots of fun to drive around and remember the &#8220;good ol&#8217; days&#8221;.<a href=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/GEDC03421.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-489\" title=\"GE DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/GEDC03421-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/GEDC03421-1024x684.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/GEDC03421-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/GEDC03421-449x300.jpg 449w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Run: \u00a05 x 400&#8217;s When we were on our vacation to Iowa, we drove past the two houses where I lived while growing up. \u00a0From the time I was 3-13 we lived in a itty-bitty house on Kinsey. \u00a0I remember my Dad mowing the yard, painting the house, putting in a new fence between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}