{"id":5846,"date":"2020-08-25T18:28:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T21:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/?p=5846"},"modified":"2020-08-25T18:28:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T21:28:55","slug":"i-was-sitting-with-my-101-year-old-mother-the-other-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/?p=5846","title":{"rendered":"I was sitting with my 101-year-old mother the other day &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>W<\/strong>hile I was home in Texas (<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">tGCoE) <\/span>for the last five months, I often found myself sitting with my 101-year-old mother and gently holding her beautiful hands.\u00a0 No, they are not pretty, but they are beautiful.\u00a0 One day as I sat with her, I began thinking of all the wonderful things she has done in her life.\u00a0 Raised nine kids, which spawned multiple grand-kids who are growing their own families.\u00a0 No telling how many <em>cloth<\/em> diapers she changed, or the number of runny noses she wiped, (not to mention bottoms).\u00a0 She clothed us, fed us, put us to bed at nights and put up with all our shenanigans <em>and<\/em> she always prayed for us.\u00a0 She wrote 7 books, several which affected the lives of many people and traveled to Me\u0111ugorje, afterwards creating a website extolling its miracles.\u00a0 She started going to Texas Tech University just for enjoyment and ended up graduating at the age of 89.\u00a0 She is now at the age when she looks back at all she has done with her life, and she sees so much more she wishes she could do.\u00a0 Living Life to the fullest will do that to you.<\/p>\n<p>As I dwelt on this, it dawned on me \u2026 no, it hit me like a bug on a windshield, that during all the years I have known this precious lady, I have never seen her and Wonder Woman in the same room together!\u00a0 Yep, my mother is Wonder Woman!\u00a0 That explains everything.<\/p>\n<p>I am so proud of all she has done!\u00a0 \u00a0D&amp;D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was home in Texas (tGCoE) for the last five months, I often found myself sitting with my 101-year-old &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/?p=5846\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2tztR-1wi","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5846"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6878,"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5846\/revisions\/6878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}