{"id":6226,"date":"2024-01-13T09:01:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T15:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=6226"},"modified":"2024-01-13T09:03:05","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T15:03:05","slug":"your-grandmothers-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2024\/01\/13\/your-grandmothers-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Grandmother&#8217;s Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evidently he had been pondering the question. Maybe he had glanced at the back wall where our classroom expectations are posted &mdash; where they are cautioned to <em>speak as if Nani is in the room<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Mister,&rdquo; he said, motioning me to come over to their table.&nbsp;&ldquo;Mister, is your grandmother&rsquo;s spirit really in the room?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I smiled.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Oh no,&rdquo; I said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not that her spirit is in the room. Nani is <em><strong>in<\/strong><\/em> the room. Every day, back there.&rdquo; I pointed to the bookcases in the far corner.<\/p>\n<p>The boys instantly turned to look. Then they turned back with confused looks on their faces.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Every day,&rdquo; I said with my open hand on my chest. &ldquo;Every day I think of her. So yes, my grandmother&#8217;s spirit is very much in this room.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evidently he had been pondering the question. Maybe he had glanced at the back wall where our classroom expectations are posted &mdash; where they are cautioned to speak as if Nani is in the room. &ldquo;Mister,&rdquo; he said, motioning me to come over to their table.&nbsp;&ldquo;Mister, is your grandmother&rsquo;s spirit really in the room?&#8221; I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6226"}],"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=6226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6228,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6226\/revisions\/6228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}