{"id":278,"date":"2008-06-13T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=278"},"modified":"2009-03-04T07:45:31","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T12:45:31","slug":"my-cousin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"My cousin"},"content":{"rendered":"

You guys see him all the time. He comments on my blog as CM, which stands for Cousin Mark. We have been cousins a long time – all of his life in fact since I am a few<\/em> years older than he. Our mothers are sisters, though we lost his Mom to cancer quite a few years ago. He and his wife Ramona have 6 kids – yep, 6! Our all too infrequent phone conversations usually have to end because our sides ache from laughing. Last month, he sent me a special package for my Birthday.<\/p>\n

He clearly pays attention to the slightest utterance in my posts<\/a> so he included a nice big bag of these babies\"smarties\"This really cool plaque is hanging in my kitchen now\"gardener\"Due to a question<\/a> he asked Riley a while ago, he had to pay off his debt of dog cookies.\"wow\"Riley was thrilled\"goody\"We didn’t all have some – just Riley [though when we were kids, my sister Weezee<\/a> and I ate some on a dare. They aren’t that good.\"have_some\"And all of that stuff was wonderful and I love it. But my cousin is also an artist. He works at Hallmark in the engraving department which involves cards with the raised embossing on them. [at least I sincerely hope that is what it is, since people he works with read this blog – hi Hallmark people!]<\/p>\n

You might remember this photo from back in April?\"orange_daff\"He turned it into something so special.\"daff_mark\"
\nPretty cool huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You guys see him all the time. He comments on my blog as CM, which stands for Cousin Mark. We have been cousins a long time – all of his life in fact since I am a few years older … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":983,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}