{"id":1064,"date":"2007-12-21T11:48:33","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T09:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/1064"},"modified":"2008-02-16T11:09:43","modified_gmt":"2008-02-16T09:09:43","slug":"recollection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/1064","title":{"rendered":"Recollection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I miss watching <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation\" target=\"_blank\">Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/a> episodes with my dad.<\/p>\n<p>My mother used to encourage us to set traps and build fortresses in the basement on cold Chicago days&#8230;or any other day.<\/p>\n<p>1\/3 of the times I climbed trees I would get stuck and ladder would have to be brought.  I still climb trees at the age of 24.  It&#8217;s just that there are few trees in Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The backseat of the minivan was my territory on family road trips.  I could lay there for hours daydreaming while the colors of whatever state we were driving through ran past the windows.<\/p>\n<p>I used to fall asleep in the grass underneath the maple trees.<\/p>\n<p>It is hard to remember how many toads and lizards we captured with our bare hands.  We must have buried at least 3 or 4.  My mother provided boxes from jewelry as coffins.<\/p>\n<p>Daddy and Granddaddy put up a swingset in our backyard&#8230;the concept of concrete was fascinating.<\/p>\n<p>Every time Mamanjoon would visit she would bring a container of baklava just for me, and sneak it to me and say &#8220;This is for you, no one else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/sholeh\/2124953994\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2078\/2124953994_d0f1acc9c7_t.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I miss watching Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes with my dad. My mother used to encourage us to set traps and build fortresses in the basement on cold Chicago days&#8230;or any other day. 1\/3 of the times I climbed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}