{"id":5069,"date":"2014-01-29T18:29:15","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T01:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/29\/a-blessed-event-is-coming\/"},"modified":"2014-01-29T18:29:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T01:29:15","slug":"a-blessed-event-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/29\/a-blessed-event-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"A Blessed Event is Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/mwbdi.jpg' alt='mwbdi.jpg' width='220' class='right' \/>I received word this afternoon that the eldest of my three granddaughters will become a mother sometime this year. Well, when that happens, it will  make me a <em>great grandfather<\/em>! Wow!<\/p>\n<p>That makes me very thankful that I was able to get in touch with the girls after many years of not knowing where or how they were. I made the effort to <a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/15\/finding-lost-family\/\">find them through social services of California<\/a> and I now am in contact with two out of the three. I still expect to hear from the youngest of them who will be turning eighteen years of age in March. <\/p>\n<p>The news makes me feel old and young at the same time &#8211; weird. But, life goes on. With that in mind, I posted this image of &#8220;man, woman, birth, death, infinity&#8221; which was used at the beginning of the old &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Xjq1P5p3fso\">Ben Casey<\/a>&#8221; TV series. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ben_Casey\">The Ben Casey series<\/a> was on television from the time I graduated high school until five years later, or so. I didn&#8217;t watch every episode, but many of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received word this afternoon that the eldest of my three granddaughters will become a mother sometime this year. Well, when that happens, it will make&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}