{"id":787171,"date":"2013-01-30T03:41:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T03:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/?p=787171"},"modified":"2013-01-30T04:41:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T04:41:43","slug":"a-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2013\/01\/30\/a-treasure\/","title":{"rendered":"A Treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a friend whose mother (who lives with them) is beginning to succumb to the unfortunate condition of Alzheimer&#8217;s. \u00a0I was at their house recently, and even though we have known each other for three years, she no longer remembers me. \u00a0She asked my friend to introduce me to her. \u00a0I introduced myself and let her know why I was visiting her daughter. \u00a0She went into her bedroom and came out with these two potholders that she had crocheted. \u00a0They are terrific! \u00a0They are nice and thick and you can&#8217;t even see where the seam is! \u00a0My friend said that her mom loves to give gifts to people.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have a lot of experience with dementia or Alzheimer&#8217;s but in the few people that I do know who have had this, it seems like the condition strips everything but their core personality. \u00a0For example, my grandmother Betty was very gracious and hospitable. \u00a0Even when she was completely bed-ridden and had no idea who you were, she would always ask if she could get you something to eat or drink, and wanted to make sure you were comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>I will always treasure this special gift, given from the heart, even if she does not remember her act of kindness, I will&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-787172\" alt=\"IMG_1306\" src=\"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_1306-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_1306-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_1306-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a friend whose mother (who lives with them) is beginning to succumb to the unfortunate condition of Alzheimer&#8217;s. \u00a0I was at their house recently, and even though we have known each other for three years, she no longer remembers me. \u00a0She asked my friend to introduce me to her. \u00a0I introduced myself and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-787171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thisnthat"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":787190,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787171\/revisions\/787190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}