{"id":12400,"date":"2014-12-16T09:46:14","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T14:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=12400"},"modified":"2014-12-16T09:46:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T14:46:42","slug":"3rd-day-of-christmas-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=12400","title":{"rendered":"3rd Day of Christmas A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7485\/15849933117_b4658b9bf2_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m the curator of my Mother&#8217;s Art and would some day like to print a little coffee table book of her work. I looked though my computer just now and discovered that this bear was made in 1982 as her second batch of Christmas ornaments. I took pictures of each year&#8217;s graduating class that I have samples of. She made them from 1981 through my Father&#8217;s death in 87 until 1994. In the early years she didn&#8217;t put the year of creation by her signature, &#8220;by George.&#8221; Somehow I deduced the year of manufacture eight years ago or so when she first was sent to live in a dementia wing of Walker Methodist in Minneapolis and I began my curating. I spent the year taking pictures of all her work and began collecting images of everything I could lay my hand on. New old stuff pops up every so often.<\/p>\n<p>Recently I found one of her painting from around the 1970&#8217;s that was given back to my sister by the family of one of my Mother&#8217;s best friends. The friend had died and the family thought the painting should go back to us. My sister, in turn, gave it to my daughter as a wedding present last summer.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m the curator of my Mother&#8217;s Art and would some day like to print a little coffee table book of her work. I looked&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,47,118],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12402,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12400\/revisions\/12402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}