{"id":1799,"date":"2016-07-10T21:14:02","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T01:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/?p=1799"},"modified":"2016-07-11T21:46:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T01:46:36","slug":"project-52-bonus-post-with-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/?p=1799","title":{"rendered":"Project 52: Bonus Post with Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1966_06<\/a><\/p>\n

Last month, on my 52nd Birthday, I began Project 52<\/a> — For 52 weeks, I’m going to reflect on the 52 years of my life.<\/p>\n

Well, last week, covering my fourth year<\/a>, I ran out of pictures that I had copied. Now, I’m going to my parents’ house at the end of this month, so I figure I can make some copies then, but I asked my Dad if he could tide me over.<\/p>\n

He answered with an abundance of pictures from the years I plan to cover the next few weeks.<\/p>\n

But thanks to my Mom’s meticulous dating of pictures, I discovered that some were from the years I’ve already covered, so I thought I’d post some of those here.<\/p>\n

And I also remembered where I had stashed two pictures I blatantly stole from my parents’ house at some point in the past. One is the picture above, which was taken in honor of my second birthday.<\/p>\n

Then this adorable family picture was taken when Baby Wendy was four months old. Isn’t Ricky’s bow tie so cute?<\/p>\n

\"1968_02<\/a><\/p>\n

But then, lest we get smug about such cuteness, perhaps the photographer tried to get a shot with everyone looking serious? Whatever the motivation, I was having none of it! This photo cracks me up every time I look at it.<\/p>\n

\"1968_02<\/a><\/p>\n

A picture that made me super happy to find was this one of me with my neighborhood friend Patty and our cat Zenie.<\/p>\n

\"1968_05<\/a><\/p>\n

I was going to talk about Zenie next week — I hadn’t realized that we got her when I was still three years old.<\/p>\n

Zenie was a stray cat, but she came with a note attached to his collar that said, “Please give me a home.” I loved her very much. I think I thought of her as my cat. I think that Ricky chose the name, coming from “Zebra,” because she was striped. Oh, and you can see our collie, Tiny Tim, peeking through the fence in back. I was a little afraid of Tiny Tim. But Zenie, I loved.<\/p>\n

From the picture below, I’m not sure if the feeling was mutual!<\/p>\n

\"1968_05<\/a><\/p>\n

There are also some nice Sibling Pictures:<\/p>\n

\"1968_05<\/a><\/p>\n

Now that Wendy was born, Ricky-Becky-Sondy had become “the Big Kids.”<\/p>\n

\"1968_05<\/a><\/p>\n

And this one’s just priceless. I was one cool three-year-old!<\/p>\n

\"1968_05<\/a><\/p>\n

And now expect many more pictures next week when I cover being Four Years Old. I’m having way too much fun with this! A big part of the fun is remembering what it was like to be that little person. I remember some odd things — putting on those clothes, feeling the soft kitty. I had completely forgotten how much I liked wearing necklaces. (To come!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last month, on my 52nd Birthday, I began Project 52 — For 52 weeks, I’m going to reflect on the 52 years of my life. Well, last week, covering my fourth year, I ran out of pictures that I had copied. Now, I’m going to my parents’ house at the end of this month, so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-52"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}