{"id":5318,"date":"2010-02-05T11:32:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T17:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=5318"},"modified":"2010-02-05T15:05:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T21:05:18","slug":"making-a-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/05\/making-a-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"Making a Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I received a free gift print from Ducks Unlimited to induce me to renew or as a reward for renewing.  I don&#8217;t know which, or maybe it&#8217;s both, since I received another one in the mail a week later.<\/p>\n<p>In most cases, I throw these things into the recycling right away, I put them aside and wait until a later time when I&#8217;m cleaning up years later to put them into the recycling, or I throw them into a box for a yard sale and then, after the yard sale passes and they don&#8217;t sell, I throw them into the recycling bin.<\/p>\n<p>This time, though, I took the reward and framed it for my children&#8217;s rooms, since their larger rooms have blank wall space these days:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/dogpicture.jpg\" width=\"400\" alt=\"Ducks Unlimited dog print\"><\/p>\n<p>Those pictures will hang on the boys&#8217; bedroom walls until they&#8217;re old enough to replace them with something more to their tastes.  Some days, in the far future, they might come across one of them in a box and recollect it fondly, wondering why they had duck hunting pictures in their rooms when their father wasn&#8217;t a duck hunter (assuming, probably safely, that I don&#8217;t become one between now and then).<\/p>\n<p>Maybe they&#8217;ll know that I joined Ducks Unlimited after my father passed away to keep his contributions alive and so I could order the camouflaged hats that I leave on my father&#8217;s grave in lieu of flowers.  Maybe I won&#8217;t get the chance to tell them that.  Maybe they&#8217;ll only have the mystery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I received a free gift print from Ducks Unlimited to induce me to renew or as a reward for renewing. I don&#8217;t know which, or maybe it&#8217;s both, since I received another one in the mail a week later. In most cases, I throw these things into the recycling right away, I put them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5318"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5332,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318\/revisions\/5332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}