{"id":2181,"date":"2014-01-07T19:49:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T02:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=2181"},"modified":"2014-01-07T19:49:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T02:49:36","slug":"mother-made-the-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=2181","title":{"rendered":"Mother Made the Newspaper!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I subscribe to the Caribou County Sun just to kind of keep track of what’s going on in that part of Idaho. One section I look at in every issue is the “Pages From the Past”, particularly the 50-years-ago segment. At that time I was a senior at Soda Springs High School and occasionally I’ll see items about the sports teams, bands, or drama presentations back then. In the January 2, 2014 edition I was surprised to see my mother mentioned in the 20-years-ago happenings. The picture below has the entire article. Her part read:<\/p>\n

… The musical program this year, for the second time, was in the form of a pageant… Arlene Smith was accompanist.<\/p>\n

At that time twenty years ago, Nina and I were living in Pleasant View, Utah and I was working on a contract for the State of Utah. Mother is now in an assisted living center and not able to play the piano much any more. Times, they are a changin’….<\/p>\n

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Arlene Smith in the Caribou County Sun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I subscribe to the Caribou County Sun just to kind of keep track of what’s going on in that part of Idaho. One section I look at in every issue is the “Pages From the Past”, particularly the 50-years-ago segment. At that time I was a senior at Soda Springs High School and occasionally I’ll … Continue reading Mother Made the Newspaper!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnKxs-zb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}