{"id":42139,"date":"2019-12-11T23:54:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T06:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=42139"},"modified":"2019-12-13T08:05:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T15:05:52","slug":"mid-week-has-arrived-and-she-is-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=42139","title":{"rendered":"Mid Week Has Arrived And She Is Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>If Santa ran out of money, would he be Saint Nickel-less?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our daughter is into genealogy and as such decided to visit Aunt Kaye in Stockton.\u00a0 Kaye is now 97 and is a skilled nursing facility as she recently had a fall and broke an arm and a hip.\u00a0 The meeting was, unfortunately, not very successful as Kaye no longer remembers much.<\/p>\n<p>Colleen put Aunt Kaye on the phone and we talked to her for about ten minutes.\u00a0 While she does repeat herself, she knew Sue&#8217;s and my voice immediately and asked about things.\u00a0 She is quite alert but memories just fade away!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_42143\" style=\"width: 958px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2019\/12\/aunt-kaye.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42143\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42143\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2019\/12\/aunt-kaye.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"948\" height=\"1110\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2019\/12\/aunt-kaye.jpg 948w, http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2019\/12\/aunt-kaye-256x300.jpg 256w, http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2019\/12\/aunt-kaye-450x527.jpg 450w, http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2019\/12\/aunt-kaye-128x150.jpg 128w, http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2019\/12\/aunt-kaye-768x899.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 948px) 100vw, 948px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-42143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">She still gets around in the wheelchair but does not want to undergo the operation required to fix things<\/p><\/div>\n<p>What was amazing is that Colleen departed our home at 2:40 AM, arrived at Stockton around 11:00 AM, visited for a while, and then returned at 6:00 PM in time to go to dinner and drinks with us at Patty&#8217;s Place!\u00a0 We wished we could do that anymore!<\/p>\n<p>We stayed around the house most of the day (worrying about her trip) and finally decided we would go to Patty&#8217;s when she returns.<\/p>\n<p>We got so busy talking with the locals that I didn&#8217;t even take a picture.\u00a0 We talked a lot about how things used to be.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_42146\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2019\/12\/differences.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42146\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42146\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2019\/12\/differences.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-42146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">They are indeed different<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After dinner, Colleen joined us for part of a Christmas movie!\u00a0 We saw the part when our eyes were open!\u00a0 Tired!<\/p>\n<p>We all crashed at about 10:00 PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Santa ran out of money, would he be Saint Nickel-less? Our daughter is into genealogy and as such decided to visit Aunt Kaye in Stockton.\u00a0 Kaye is now 97 and is a skilled nursing facility as she recently had &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=42139\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-food-and-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42139"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42148,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42139\/revisions\/42148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}