{"id":9071,"date":"2009-02-22T14:38:33","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T19:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9071"},"modified":"2022-10-16T18:59:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T22:59:43","slug":"a-mothers-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9071","title":{"rendered":"A mother&#8217;s relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is what happens when you don&#8217;t talk to your mother for five days (unheard of, when recently I have been talking to her daily), and the only way she stays in contact with you is by reading your blog.  Big things went down this week &#8211; and, as always, I wrote about none of them here on the blog.  My blog is not a diary.  I sent my mother a long email, detailing all of the new developments in this or that area.  She called me about half an hour later, after getting the email.<\/p>\n<p>We chatted.  I filled her in.  She filled me in.  I talked more, telling her this and that and what&#8217;s going down.<\/p>\n<p>Then I said, &#8220;God, Mum, sorry, I&#8217;m talking your ear off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She said, &#8220;It&#8217;s actually nice to hear something from you <i>other<\/i> than your thoughts on <i>Skyward Christmas<\/i>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9059\">Skyward Christmas: Some changes and observations<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9068\">Skyward Christmas: My opening salvo<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9069\">Skyward Christmas: Part deux<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what happens when you don&#8217;t talk to your mother for five days (unheard of, when recently I have been talking to her daily), and the only way she stays in contact with you is by reading your blog. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9071\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[1101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9071"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182232,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9071\/revisions\/182232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}