{"id":330,"date":"2002-09-24T01:00:25","date_gmt":"2002-09-23T20:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/330"},"modified":"2002-09-24T01:00:25","modified_gmt":"2002-09-23T20:00:25","slug":"heres-something-you-dont-see-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/330","title":{"rendered":"Here’s something you don’t see every day"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was going through some old boxes and found my mother’s poll tax receipts from 1958-1966. The poll tax<\/a> was outlawed in 1966.<\/p>\n

I also found:<\/p>\n

– a picture painted by my great-great-great aunt in 1938 for my mother
\n– a whole bunch of my riflery and archery targets and patches and medals from camp
\n– a newspaper article about a relative who went to jail
\n– a letter from my big brother to me when I went to camp (I’m still waiting for that Astroworld trip I was promised…)
\n– a bunch of dim pictures of unidentifiable landscape (pitched)
\n– letters from my grandfather to his parents while he was a cadet at West Point
\n– my mother’s confirmation certificate
\n– all my report cards and standardized test results<\/p>\n

I started this project to toss out trash, but it’s taking me hours to go through the boxes. All the letters written to and from camp for the 7 years I went there, for example – fascinating. I got 2 letters in 1981, one from my great-aunt and one from my mom, about how fascinating the royal wedding was between Charles and Diana. My mom recorded it for me. On betamax. I still have it somewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was going through some old boxes and found my mother’s poll tax receipts from 1958-1966. The poll tax was outlawed in 1966. I also found: – a picture painted by my great-great-great aunt in 1938 for my mother – a whole bunch of my riflery and archery targets and patches and medals from camp […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}