{"id":1757,"date":"2016-06-02T04:09:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T11:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1757"},"modified":"2016-06-02T04:13:06","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T11:13:06","slug":"packing-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1757","title":{"rendered":"Packing Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15011.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1759\" \/><\/a>Spent the evening packing memories.<\/p>\n<p>They came in file cabinets full of letters, legal documents, instructions, and pictures\/drawings mostly of\/from children and grandchildren. My job was to make six drawers of material in the old home fit into three in the new one.<\/p>\n<p>Wasn\u2019t hard. I save way too much insignificant stuff\u2014a copy of my Ph.D. qualifying exam from 1997. Seriously, Mike?<\/p>\n<p>And there was something else. My saved correspondence included not only uplifting things (an encouraging letter from my Granna in 1973, a love letter from Charlotte in 1981) but some hurtful ones (an official rebuke from supervisors in 1991). <\/p>\n<p>Guess you know what I trashed? Yep\u2014the insignificant and the negative.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if only I could do the same with those files I keep in my head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spent the evening packing memories. They came in file cabinets full of letters, legal documents, instructions, and pictures\/drawings mostly of\/from children and grandchildren. My job was to make six drawers of material in the old home fit into three in the new one. Wasn\u2019t hard. I save way too much insignificant stuff\u2014a copy of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1757"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1762,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions\/1762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}