{"id":57265,"date":"2022-09-19T12:29:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T19:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=57265"},"modified":"2022-09-11T12:38:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T19:38:59","slug":"happy-birthday-grama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/happy-birthday-grama\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Grama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20131103_140946-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-57266\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20131103_140946-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Grama\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20131103_140946-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20131103_140946-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20131103_140946-scaled.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 85vw, 169px\" \/><\/a>My Grama has been on my mind lately. Today would have been her 98th birthday and I just wanted to celebrate her. She is one of the people I always saw doing needlework, so she influenced me greatly.<\/p>\n<p>She mostly did crochet when I knew her. I have a small afghan in a chevron pattern that she made for me. It is super warm. She ran out of yarn. Being young, I didn&#8217;t understand about dye lots, so couldn&#8217;t understand why she didn&#8217;t just go get more yarn.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_57268\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57268\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20131103_140621-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-57268\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20131103_140621-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Grama's Birthday 2013\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20131103_140621-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20131103_140621-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20131103_140621-scaled.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 85vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-57268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grama&#8217;s Birthday 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After her second husband died in around 2004, I started spending a lot more time with her. I went down for a surprise party for her and someone snapped this photo. Her face conveys a lot about her personality.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Birthday, Grama!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Grama has been on my mind lately. Today would have been her 98th birthday and I just wanted to celebrate her. She is one of the people I always saw doing needlework, so she influenced me greatly. She mostly did crochet when I knew her. I have a small afghan in a chevron pattern &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/happy-birthday-grama\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Birthday, Grama&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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":""},"categories":[506],"tags":[350,326],"class_list":["post-57265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-506","tag-best-wishes","tag-off-topic-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57265"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57270,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57265\/revisions\/57270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}