
{"id":17223,"date":"2011-04-07T14:49:19","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T18:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=17223"},"modified":"2011-04-07T14:49:19","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T18:49:19","slug":"old-doll-1978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/04\/07\/old-doll-1978\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Doll, 1978"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Thousand Words<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>By Jock Lauterer<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2011\/04\/07\/old-doll-1978\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/OldDoll78.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/OldDoll78.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/OldDoll78-113x75.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/OldDoll78-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/OldDoll78-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAs a Seasoned Citizen, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been thinking a lot these days about de-cluttering. When I pop off to the big darkroom in the sky, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want my kids to have to clean up after me \u00e2\u20ac\u201c as I did after my mother died unexpectedly at 51. So I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been going through a lot of Old Stuff here lately. Each box and trunk tucked away in the attic or basement is a time bomb, which upon opening sucks you in like a black hole where time is forgotten and time travel is real. When I opened the lid on this trunk, a long-forgotten handmade doll startled me with her size and relentless grin. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Polly,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as I remember her name, was the favorite of my now 40-something daughter. But what does an aging parent do with the toys of his now-grown children? You could start by making a photograph. Happy birthday, Selena!<\/p>\n<p><strong>A THOUSAND WORDS<\/strong><br \/>\nDo you have an important old photo that you value? Email your photo to jock@email.unc.edu and include the story behind the picture. Because every picture tells a story. And its worth? A thousand words.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/sections\/a-thousand-words\/\">More &#8220;A Thousand Words&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a Seasoned Citizen, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been thinking a lot these days about de-cluttering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[422],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-thousand-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17225,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17223\/revisions\/17225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}