My Persian grandparents are visiting right now.\u00c2\u00a0 They left Iran after the 1979 Revolution, and have lived in the United States since then.\u00c2\u00a0 My grandfather (Baba) is in his 90s, and my grandmother (Maman) is in her 70s.\u00c2\u00a0 They are hilarious and adorable, and I’m so glad I get to spend so much time with them.<\/p>\n
Today my mother went with them to the grocery store.\u00c2\u00a0 They came home, and as I was putting shoes on to get the groceries from the car, Baba insisted that he wanted to come help get the groceries.<\/p>\n
90 years old<\/strong>, and wants to help me, a 24 year old, carry groceries<\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0 Needless to say, I did not let him help me.<\/p>\n I had techno music playing while I cleaned the house.\u00c2\u00a0 When they got home, I turned off the music.\u00c2\u00a0 Maman says to me, in Farsi, “No, the music is nice!\u00c2\u00a0 We are American now, we like it!” <\/strong><\/p>\n Mom and I went outside and died laughing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My Persian grandparents are visiting right now.\u00c2\u00a0 They left Iran after the 1979 Revolution, and have lived in the United States since then.\u00c2\u00a0 My grandfather (Baba) is in his 90s, and my grandmother (Maman) is in her 70s.\u00c2\u00a0 They are…<\/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":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","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=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1383,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/1383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}