“Oh, I got your letter,” he said. “I liked it. Thanks.”<\/p>\n
I wasn’t quite sure what to make of that and was trying to remember what I had written (as it’s been a several weeks) when he continued.<\/p>\n
“I really liked it, because it reminded me of…”<\/p>\n
Reminded him of what?<\/p>\n
“…it reminded me of when you used to write me those think-plan-do-finish<\/em> letters and send me those Lego-man<\/em> postcards.”<\/p>\n I remember think-plan-do-finish<\/em>, but I’d forgotten writing letters exhorting him to avoid the procrastinating ways of his father. And I’d completely forgotten the Lego-man<\/em> postcards, although I can picture them now\u2014hand-drawn, 3-D, Lego-like characters tinted with colored pencils.<\/p>\n I was smiling in the easy chair in the dark of early evening on the other side of the living room from Trudy. I tried to wipe my eye discretely so she wouldn’t see.<\/p>\n “Oh, Ben,” she said. “Your dad’s all weepy.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Oh, I got your letter,” he said. “I liked it. Thanks.” I wasn’t quite sure what to make of that and was trying to remember what I had written (as it’s been a several weeks) when he continued. “I really liked it, because it reminded me of…” Reminded him of what? “…it reminded me of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,9,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1440,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions\/1440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}