{"id":4653,"date":"2025-05-26T13:30:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T13:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=4653"},"modified":"2025-05-26T13:30:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T13:30:20","slug":"memorial-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=4653","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today is Memorial Day \u2014 we always did something on Memorial Day weekend. Even if it wasn\u2019t much, we did something together and that made it special\u2026 being together. I was just trying to remember our last Memorial Day together and nothing specific comes to mind \u2014 I think it was just one of those quite holidays for us and we just spent time together. Of course those were the best times \u2014 our time together.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I came downstairs this morning, I remembered that she was usually downstairs first and when I came into the kitchen, she\u2019d always give me the biggest smile. I know I\u2019m biased, but I think she had the most contagious smile I\u2019ve ever seen. I asked\u00a0 her once how she could always be so happy.\u00a0<br>I remember her saying that she wasn\u2019t happy \u2014 she was cheerful. And she explained the difference. Being happy meant that she didn\u2019t have a care in the world, but being cheerful meant that she had worries and issues, but had learned to deal with them. I always wished I could be more like that.<br>She also said that a smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you\u2019re home \u2014 she was always home\u2026..<br>Happy Memorial Day!!<br>\u2014 30 \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Memorial Day \u2014 we always did something on Memorial Day weekend. Even if it wasn\u2019t much, we did something together and that made it special\u2026 being together. I was just trying to remember our last Memorial Day together &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=4653\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4654,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653\/revisions\/4654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}