{"id":3358,"date":"2009-01-16T16:17:15","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T00:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/entries\/reunion\/"},"modified":"2009-01-16T16:17:15","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T00:17:15","slug":"reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/index.php\/2009\/01\/reunion\/","title":{"rendered":"Reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got home last night from a trip to Atlanta to bury my grandmother. I&#8217;m glad I went. So glad. I&#8217;m proud of how well the family is handling everything, and how beautifully they respect and remember our Memama.<\/p>\n<p>Most of my family I had not seen in years, some of them just a couple weeks ago when we visited&#8230;but it was good, so good to see them all.<\/p>\n<p>Of course Mama asked for family portraits before the funeral service and everyone graciously complied. Here is my family:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox[reunion]\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_5696ps-1.jpg\" title=\" My grandmother\u2019s church where my twin was married.\"><img src=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_5696ps-1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\" My grandmother\u2019s church where my twin was married.\" \/><\/a><a rel=\"lightbox[reunion]\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_5698ps-1.jpg\" title=\" the chapel that is now the office.\"><img src=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_5698ps-1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\" the chapel that is now the office.\" \/><\/a><a rel=\"lightbox[reunion]\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_5711ps-1.jpg\" title=\" The whole clan.\"><img src=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_5711ps-1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\" The whole clan.\" \/><\/a><a rel=\"lightbox[reunion]\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_5715ps-1.jpg\" title=\" Aunt JoAnn and Uncle Sammy\u2019s family\"><img src=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_5715ps-1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\" Aunt JoAnn and Uncle Sammy\u2019s family\" \/><\/a><a rel=\"lightbox[reunion]\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_5720ps-1.jpg\" title=\" Aunt Cheri and Uncle Jack\u2019s family\"><img src=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_5720ps-1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\" Aunt Cheri and Uncle Jack\u2019s family\" \/><\/a><a rel=\"lightbox[reunion]\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_5730ps-1.jpg\" title=\" My mother\u2019s family (minus Peter and our three boys)\"><img src=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_5730ps-1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\" My mother\u2019s family (minus Peter and our three boys)\" \/><\/a><a rel=\"lightbox[reunion]\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_5722ps-1.jpg\" title=\" Uncle Jack and Aunt Peggy\u2019s family\"><img src=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_5722ps-1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\" Uncle Jack and Aunt Peggy\u2019s family\" \/><\/a><a rel=\"lightbox[reunion]\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_5725ps-1.jpg\" title=\" Aunt Laura\u2019s family\"><img src=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_5725ps-1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\" Aunt Laura\u2019s family\" \/><\/a><a rel=\"lightbox[reunion]\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_5726ps-1.jpg\" title=\" My mother\u2019s cousin Joe Allen\u2019s family\"><img src=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_5726ps-1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\" My mother\u2019s cousin Joe Allen\u2019s family\" \/><\/a><a rel=\"lightbox[reunion]\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_5734ps-1.jpg\" title=\" Mama and Ron\"><img src=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_5734ps-1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\" Mama and Ron\" \/><\/a><a rel=\"lightbox[reunion]\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_5731ps-1.jpg\" title=\" Mama\u2019s children\"><img src=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_5731ps-1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\" Mama\u2019s children\" \/><\/a><a rel=\"lightbox[reunion]\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_5737ps-1.jpg\" title=\" Vann and Vanessa\u2019s family\"><img src=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_5737ps-1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\" Vann and Vanessa\u2019s family\" \/><\/a><a rel=\"lightbox[reunion]\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_5739ps-1.jpg\" title=\" R.J. and Christina\"><img src=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_5739ps-1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\" R.J. and Christina\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My love to you all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got home last night from a trip to Atlanta to bury my grandmother. I&#8217;m glad I went. So glad. I&#8217;m proud of how well the family is handling everything, and how beautifully they respect and remember our Memama. Most of my family I had not seen in years, some of them just a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}