{"id":515,"date":"2014-05-12T08:50:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T12:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=515"},"modified":"2014-05-15T17:35:36","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T21:35:36","slug":"counting-blessings-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/counting-blessings-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"Counting Blessings and Losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-516\" src=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/brunchcrop-1024x695.jpg\" alt=\"In Ithaca, New York, Robin Botie's friends get together for a Mothers' Day brunch.\" width=\"800\" height=\"543\" \/>3 friends got together for a Mothers\u2019 Day brunch.<br \/>\nOnly 1 of the 3 friends had a living mother. The other 2 kept their mothers in their hearts.<br \/>\n2 of the 3 friends brought their daughters. 1 of the 3 had her daughter in her heart.<\/p>\n<p>2 of the 3 had 1 son each. The sons weren\u2019t invited.<br \/>\nThe 2 friends without mothers had living fathers. The 1 with the live mother had lost her father but had sisters. Neither of the other friends or their daughters had sisters. But that\u2019s another story.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 3 friends there were 4 former husbands, not invited. Putting the 3 friends and the 2 daughters together there was only 1 boyfriend. Currently.<br \/>\nNo current husbands in the bunch.<\/p>\n<p>The 5 women together had 4 houses, 9 cats, and 4 dogs, counting the boyfriend\u2019s dog, not counting the friend\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suki-dogs.com\" target=\"_blank\">dog that died<\/a> 2 weeks ago. The dogs were invited to the brunch.<\/p>\n<p>At the brunch they shared the 2 daughters. They drank and ate well, outside. The dogs played. A neighbor joined them. The resident cats disappeared.<br \/>\nIn 2 days the 1 living mother would come to town and take the 3 friends out for dinner.<br \/>\nThe 2 fathers would get together at the fatherless friend\u2019s house whenever they were both in town.<br \/>\nIf the friends pooled their blessings they could celebrate endlessly.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 3 friends, if one doesn\u2019t eat red meat and another won\u2019t eat wheat, and the third doesn\u2019t do dairy or dessert, what did they serve at the brunch besides fruit salad and mimosas?<br \/>\nIf 1 drinks tea, 1 drinks coffee, and 1 drinks only water or wine depending on the time of day, how many mimosas did they all consume?<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it takes a village to have a brunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 friends got together for a Mothers&rsquo; Day brunch. Only 1 of the 3 friends had a living mother. The other 2 kept their mothers in their hearts. 2 of the 3 friends brought their daughters. 1 of the 3 had her daughter in her heart. 2 of the 3 had 1 son each. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[138,139,132,134,137,133,135,136],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1","tag-coping-through-holidays","tag-counting-blessings-and-losses","tag-counting-our-blessings","tag-counting-our-losses","tag-holidays-and-loss-of-loved-ones","tag-mothers-and-daughters","tag-mothers-day-brunch","tag-women-together"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}