Our parents shape us in so many ways. My father was born in the year 1900, my mother in 1909, and I came along as a surprise change-of-life baby in 1948. My child bride was born in 1954 and her mom, my beloved mother-in-law, in 1935.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was reminded of that recently after supper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Evil Princess: Have you put that plate away yet?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Me: No, I\u2019m sopping up the last bit of gravy with some rye bread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her: Good to the last drop, huh?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Me: Yeah. My parents went through The Great Depression. Hell, my dad wouldn\u2019t throw a crust of bread away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her: My grandmother (born in 1913) would say \u201cThere are children starving in Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Me: If my parents had said that to me and if I had been the smartass I am now, I would have said \u201cThen send that food to Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her: I said that to my mother once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Me: How\u2019d that work out for you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her: I said it to my mother\u2026(ominous pause) \u2026 once!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Me: Got it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As much as we all bitch about inflation, perhaps we should be more grateful than we sometimes are for the abundance we have in this country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our parents shape us in so many ways. My father was born in the year 1900, my mother in 1909, and I came along as a surprise change-of-life baby in 1948. My child bride was born in 1954 and her mom, my beloved mother-in-law, in 1935. I was reminded of that recently after supper. Evil […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7994,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7993\/revisions\/7994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}