{"id":425,"date":"2009-04-25T06:44:24","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T14:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/?p=425"},"modified":"2013-12-30T19:56:49","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T01:56:49","slug":"happy-birthday-mom-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/?p=425","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Mom!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago I taught myself to build a website in honor of my mom&#8217;s 60th birthday. Mom lived in Texas. I didn&#8217;t. Now, my mom is turning 70! I live in Texas. Mom doesn&#8217;t. <span style=\"color:#666699;\"><strong>WHO KNEW?!?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gigglefern.com\/family\/mom\/birthday.htm\" target=\"blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/images\/2009\/04\/momturns601.jpg\" alt=\"Happy Birthday, Sharon!!\" title=\"Happy Birthday, Sharon!!\" width=\"492\" height=\"344\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-428\" style=\"border:none;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A lot has happened in that 10 years. Among other things, both Mom and Dad became cancer survivors. They moved back to Michigan. They became great-grandparents. Even with my poor track record of web updates lately, much of it has been documented on the <a href=\"http:\/\/gigglefern.com\" target=\"blank\">website<\/a> that grew out of that gift. My goal with it was to collect photos and messages on a website and to have Mom&#8217;s friends and family look at it with her that day, no matter where there were geographically located. I think it may have been the best gift I have ever given.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Mom is back in Michigan, surrounded by friends and family. I&#8217;m still far away. And the gift this time is a collaborative one from Michele and Shaun, Westi and Mike, Nicole, Steve, Shelly and Jill, Dad, and Steve and me. It is a different type of present but it is somewhat thematic, attempting to symbolically gather family together all in one place again. Here&#8217;s a virtual representation. Don&#8217;t peek, Mom, until everyone is there. Then <a href=\"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/images\/2009\/04\/bracelet-in-open-box.jpg\" target=\"blank\">click the box<\/a> to open your gift in a new window.<\/p>\n<p>I love you, Mom. Happy Birthday!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/images\/2009\/04\/bracelet-in-open-box.jpg\" target=\"blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/images\/2009\/04\/bracelet-box.jpg\" alt=\"wrapped birthday gift\" title=\"wrapped birthday gift\" width=\"492\" height=\"184\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-440\" style=\"border:none;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago I taught myself to build a website in honor of my mom&#8217;s 60th birthday. Mom lived in Texas. I didn&#8217;t. Now, my mom is turning 70! I live in Texas. Mom doesn&#8217;t. WHO KNEW?!? A lot has happened in that 10 years. Among other things, both Mom and Dad became cancer survivors. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1807,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions\/1807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}