{"id":4146,"date":"2014-07-16T12:37:39","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T16:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=4146"},"modified":"2014-07-19T10:58:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T14:58:04","slug":"a-message-to-aunt-erma-1964","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/4146","title":{"rendered":"a message to Aunt Erma, 1964"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cHave been real bad about not writing.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014Miles, Jr.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/4117\" title=\"my previous entry about ABAD Wales\" target=\"_blank\">collage on 50-year-old postcard<\/a> arrived in Wales and it was posted to <a href=\"http:\/\/abookaboutdeathwales.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/16\/john-andrew-dixon\/\" target=\"_blank\">the ABAD site<\/a> today. The reverse of the vintage card is probably more interesting than my improvisation on the image side. A message from Miles, Jr. (sitting in the Louvre, resting feet more tired than eyes) was written on July 10th and received an Army Air Force postmark on July 13th. Apparently his Aunt Erma was in the hospital \u2014 a nephew reaching out to \u201cthe only family person who knows these places.\u201d Whether or not she ever came home is unknown, but we can only imagine that the card from Paris evoked for her more than a few memories of Europe, the bitter as well as the sweet.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Dixon_ABAD2014_reverse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Dixon_ABAD2014_reverse.jpg\" title=\"click to read message side of 1964 postcard\" width=\"400\" height=\"282\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Dixon_ABAD2014_reverse.jpg 1773w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Dixon_ABAD2014_reverse-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Dixon_ABAD2014_reverse-1024x723.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 315px; margin-bottom: 33px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>ABAD 2014<\/em><\/strong> (reverse of vintage postcard substrate)<br \/>\ncollage on 1964 postcard by J A Dixon<br \/>\n6 x 4 inches, not for sale<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHave been real bad about not writing.\u201d \u2014Miles, Jr. My collage on 50-year-old postcard arrived in Wales and it was posted to the ABAD site today. The reverse of the vintage card is probably more interesting than my improvisation on the image side. A message from Miles, Jr. (sitting in the Louvre, resting feet more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,22,94],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4146"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4168,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146\/revisions\/4168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}