{"id":285,"date":"2008-06-13T18:34:44","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T18:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/?p=285"},"modified":"2008-06-13T18:34:48","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T18:34:48","slug":"guess-whos-coming-for-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/?p=285","title":{"rendered":"guess who&#8217;s coming for dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>took a break from the not-so-pretty stitching to finish off the dinner plate for my mother, ada. named after her daddy&#8217;s favorite mule . . . or his mother, we&#8217;re not really sure which since he gave her the &#8220;named-after-my-mother&#8221; story as a birthday present late, late in his long, long life.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/mothersplate5.jpg\" alt=\"mothersplate5.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"375\" height=\"281\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>got the idea of a nest from a piece that talented one called <a href=\"http:\/\/sparklinglotusland.typepad.com\/nichobella\/\">acey<\/a> did a while back. from the womb till this very day, my mother creates the most beautiful, tasteful, gracious, supportive, nurturing nests in every way a woman\/mother can create a nest.<\/p>\n<p>when she was a wee baby, mother reached out to grab the lacy collar of her grandmother who smiled at mother and cooed, &#8220;she&#8217;s going to love pretty things. oh yes she is.&#8221; the woman knew. she just flat-out knew. <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/mothersplate4.jpg\" alt=\"mothersplate4.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"375\" height=\"281\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/mothersplate2.jpg\" alt=\"mothersplate2.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"375\" height=\"281\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>i could tell you more &#8211; lots more &#8211; about mother. stories, memories, and tributes abound (and with my new server plan, i have the bandwidth to share them all). but i think for now i&#8217;ll just let you meet her over dinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>took a break from the not-so-pretty stitching to finish off the dinner plate for my mother, ada. named after her daddy&#8217;s favorite mule . . . or his mother, we&#8217;re not really sure which since he gave her the &#8220;named-after-my-mother&#8221; story as a birthday present late, late in his long, long life. got the idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-dinner-party"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}