{"id":306,"date":"2009-12-06T00:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/06\/a-sentimental-gift-idea\/"},"modified":"2009-12-06T00:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-06T00:21:00","slug":"a-sentimental-gift-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/06\/a-sentimental-gift-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sentimental Gift Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,153,0);\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">I read this in the <\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,153,0);\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stretcher.com\/index.cfm\"><em>Dollar Stretcher<\/em><\/a><em> newsletter years ago and it seemed so touching that I kept it.  My own parents died years ago so I can&#8217;t use this myself but I think it would make a wonderful gift for a mother or father&#8230;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"color:rgb(255,0,0);\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">&quot;I think this gift is the most treasured one my mother has ever received. Several weeks before Christmas I sent my three brothers 10 blank parchment cards.  I asked them each to write out 10 separate fond or special memories they have about our mom. Combined with my own, I then put the 40 cards in an extra large vase tied with a beautiful bow.<\/p>\n<p>My mom didn&#8217;t know what to make of the gift at first, but as she started  reading the cards she became filled with emotion. Anytime she needs a  little reminder as to just how special she is, all she has to do is pull a card out and she knows she is loved.&quot;<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this in the Dollar Stretcher newsletter years ago and it seemed so touching that I kept it. My own parents died years ago so I can&#8217;t use this myself but I think it would make a wonderful gift for a mother or father&#8230; &quot;I think this gift is the most treasured one my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[112,123],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}