{"id":883,"date":"2008-10-30T14:01:22","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T18:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=883"},"modified":"2008-10-30T14:01:22","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T18:01:22","slug":"its-back-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=883","title":{"rendered":"It’s back home!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My birthday was October 26th.\u00a0 As a huge surprise, my younger brother Mike returned a guitar I lent him nearly 20 years ago.\u00a0 In short, long ago I played some classical guitar (taught by my talented sister-in-law Sarah, whose dad was a famous musician).\u00a0 Mike was living with me and my husband.\u00a0 He use to pick up my yardstick and goof around with it.\u00a0 At one point I started noticing that he had excellent finger dexterity when air-guitaring on it, and I realized he needed “real” lessons.\u00a0 I stopped playing, and his lessons began.\u00a0 Along the way, he commandeered my guitar with my pleas to return it falling on deaf ears.\u00a0 Eventually I stopped asking (although it became a joke between us).<\/p>\n

Flash forward:\u00a0 Mike is now an excellent musician with a room full of guitars, and I’ve basically forgotten most of what I learned.\u00a0 When he came over with a guitar case, I figured he was bringing one of his guitars into the house to play.\u00a0 When he gave me the case, I was stunned.\u00a0 When I opened it and saw my old guitar, my mouth dropped.\u00a0 Not only did he return it, but he had some work done on it.\u00a0 Better still was the tear-jerking letter he gave me with the guitar. It was truly the best gift I can remember. How could I not let Rich take a picture to capture the moment, despite me not being showered?<\/p>\n

So on this birthday before the big one, Coldplay preformed on SNL (okay, that was Saturday night, but they played Sunday morning), the Giants won, and my brother put an solid smile in my soul!\u00a0 And that’s all before the lovely roses from Rich.<\/p>\n

Funny enough, just a few days prior I found a bunch of my original music books and started itching to play.\u00a0 Maybe it’s time – although I did see that look of panic in my husband’s face — that, oh no, I’m not going to have to listen that<\/em> again.\u00a0\u00a0 BTW, hanging behind us is a quilt I made in 1986!\u00a0 It was my first to win a Best of Show at a state fair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My birthday was October 26th.\u00a0 As a huge surprise, my younger brother Mike returned a guitar I lent him nearly 20 years ago.\u00a0 In short, long ago I played some classical guitar (taught by my talented sister-in-law Sarah, whose dad was a famous musician).\u00a0 Mike was living with me and my husband.\u00a0 He use to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":891,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions\/891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}