{"id":2877,"date":"2010-08-16T16:30:52","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T23:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/?p=2877"},"modified":"2011-12-03T18:26:49","modified_gmt":"2011-12-04T00:26:49","slug":"long-shadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/16\/long-shadows\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2903\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/16\/long-shadows\/hpim1675\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2903\" title=\"Shadows\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/HPIM1675.jpg\" alt=\"Shadows\" width=\"225\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/HPIM1675.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/HPIM1675-169x126.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>My favorite time of day is when the sun slowly disappears below the western horizon. Long shadows appear behind the trees,     the bushes, >  houses &#8211; anything and everything.<\/p>\n<p>Holding the lessons of the day, these shadows reveal the personalities of their owners. Some tall and straight, others short and bent. They reflect what we see.<\/p>\n<p>I like these shadows, no matter the shape. The serenity, the depth, the complexity of their story.<\/p>\n<p>One year ago today, my mother, Ida, died after an 8 year battle with Alzheimer&#8217;s. She was a strong person with immense influence. Her shadow was indeed long.<\/p>\n<p>Her shadow held her most precious lessons of life. To see them, to understand them; all you had to do was look.<\/p>\n<p>She smiled easily. She laughed even easier. She always asked about you; said little about herself. She loved her family, her friends. She loved life.<\/p>\n<p>Even when she could not remember your name, or her own, she still showed interest in you. She reached out her hand with a gentle touch. She cared. She knew.<\/p>\n<p>Did she know what was happening to her? Probably; but she never let on. She never complained.<\/p>\n<p>We all cast a shadow. Each telling a different story. A unique story. A new shadow shaped each day built on past memories.<\/p>\n<p>Mom had long memories. Rich in stories, deep in lessons.<\/p>\n<p>Today, her shadow is easily seen and always felt.<\/p>\n<p>We miss you mom. We love you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite time of day is when the sun slowly disappears below the western horizon. Long shadows appear behind the trees, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[431],"class_list":["post-2877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alzheimers","tag-alzheimers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}