{"id":10785,"date":"2025-05-11T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T16:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=10785"},"modified":"2025-05-11T21:57:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T04:57:49","slug":"mothers-day-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2025\/05\/11\/mothers-day-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Mothers Day 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250510-flower-and-pollinators.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250510-flower-and-pollinators.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10786\" srcset=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250510-flower-and-pollinators.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250510-flower-and-pollinators-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250510-flower-and-pollinators-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250510-flower-and-pollinators-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have no children or other descendants living close by, so we will be celebrating Mothers Day quietly while remembering our departed Mothers in Heaven as we prepare a nice Sunday Feast of smoked London Broil steak. The meat is marinating as I write this and will be put in the smoker soon.<\/p>\n<p>Damsel is a Mother and Grandmother as well. We will celebrate her with a card and a gift from myself and the puppies for whom she does a good job of &#8220;mothering.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Our three grandchildren living in California are now <u>all<\/u> Mothers since the birth of the latest (5th) great-grandchild in early March of this year. We will be wishing the young Mothers a very happy Mothers Day.<\/p>\n<p>Mothers day falls in the spring when flowers from the various cacti are popping up. The (clickable) image above is of a saguaro cactus flower taken earlier on Saturday (05\/10\/2025), complete with some pollinators doing their thing.<\/p>\n<p>So, we wish God&#8217;s Blessing on all the mothers out there, past, present and future. Happy Mothers Day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have no children or other descendants living close by, so we will be celebrating Mothers Day quietly while remembering our departed Mothers in Heaven as&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,72,73,49,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-flowers","category-holidays","category-home-garden","category-notions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10785"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10791,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10785\/revisions\/10791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}