{"id":2598,"date":"2012-01-07T19:47:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T00:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=2598"},"modified":"2012-01-07T19:47:16","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T00:47:16","slug":"a-life-time-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=2598","title":{"rendered":"A Life Time Ago…"},"content":{"rendered":"

After 35 years my mom is off to India for a visit. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Can you imagine? \u00a035 years is a few year shy of my whole life! \u00a0So much has happened in that time. \u00a0She was very excited! \u00a0Her immediate family have all lived in the States for many, many years. \u00a0As she goes back to her town, she will meet cousins and extended family. \u00a0My mom probably hasn’t comprehended the extent to which her country has changed. \u00a0As my brother and her were planning things, she would mention that ‘there’s a great eatery here” … probably not realizing that so much time has gone by.<\/p>\n

I hope it is a trip that is full of good health and she doesn’t get sick. \u00a0I hope that her heart is full when she leaves of amazing memories. \u00a0A trip of a lifetime. \u00a0I wish …<\/p>\n

Well life is funny how things turn out. \u00a0The last time I was in India, I was 5 years old. \u00a0I have some select memories of things that happened. \u00a0I remember us boarding a train from one town to another. \u00a0 We all got in except my dad. \u00a0He got left behind, for some reason. \u00a0I remember the look of panic on my mom’s face. \u00a0I remember eating Tang on the train. \u00a0Obviously my dad found us and all was well. \u00a0I remember us climbing stairs to my grandma’s apartment. \u00a0We knocked. \u00a0My dad’s mom, Takuma, as we called her, had no idea we were coming. \u00a0When she opened the door, there stood three kids. \u00a0She had never met us. \u00a0Then my dad came around the corner. \u00a0My grandma started to cry. \u00a0I love that memory.<\/p>\n

My dad’s whole family, with the exception of one sister, still lives in India. \u00a0It is kind of weird to think that I have a whole bunch of aunts, uncles and cousins who I don’t know. \u00a0I love that through modern technology, Facebook, I have “seen” some of them. \u00a0I love that we can at least have a superficial relationship, with the occasional chatter.<\/p>\n

It’s funny… for so many years, well for my whole life, I thought that so many of my parents quirks were just them. \u00a0You know how especially as a teen you see your parents as strange? \u00a0The funny thing is as my curiousity grows about all things Indian, I realize that so much of their quirks were really just part of their culture.<\/p>\n

I can’t wait to go to India. \u00a0Soon… very soon… Well, here’s hoping!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After 35 years my mom is off to India for a visit. \u00a0 Can you imagine? \u00a035 years is a few year shy of my whole life! \u00a0So much has happened in that time. \u00a0She was very excited! \u00a0Her immediate … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,6,1,140,11,55],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2602,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions\/2602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}