{"id":3656,"date":"2004-11-28T08:33:24","date_gmt":"2004-11-28T16:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=438"},"modified":"2004-11-28T08:33:24","modified_gmt":"2004-11-28T16:33:24","slug":"florences-birthday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2004\/11\/28\/florences-birthday-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Florence&#039;s Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"flo_92_sm.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/flo_92_sm.jpg\" width=\"216\" height=\"162\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nWe celebrated Flo&#8217;s birthday last night at the Hopkins&#8217;.<br \/>\nShe&#8217;ll turn 92 on Monday.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/flo_92.html\">View larger image<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"matt_flo_sm.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/matt_flo_sm.jpg\" width=\"216\" height=\"162\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nMatt and Flo, with Mary peering out from the centerpiece.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/matt_flo.html\">View larger image<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Flo told this story last night:<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sitting with my friends at Concord Park and this lady walks up, bends down, looks into my  face and asks, &#8220;What is your name?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I tell her Florence Canning. She takes a step back and asks, &#8220;How do you spell that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; I tell her it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s C-A-N-N-I-N-G. Canning peaches, canning pears, canning pickles. She disappears and I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see her until the next day when she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s getting ready to leave. I approach her and ask, &#8220;Do you remember my name?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why of course I do,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she replies.  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It&#8217;s Florence Pickles.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We celebrated Flo&#8217;s birthday last night at the Hopkins&#8217;. She&#8217;ll turn 92 on Monday. View larger image Matt and Flo, with Mary peering out from the centerpiece. View larger image Flo told this story last night: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sitting with my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2004\/11\/28\/florences-birthday-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}