{"id":270,"date":"2012-03-28T21:07:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T09:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/?p=270"},"modified":"2012-03-28T21:07:21","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T09:07:21","slug":"time-is-a-bullet-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/2012\/03\/time-is-a-bullet-train\/","title":{"rendered":"Time is a Bullet Train"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This blue-eyed cutie is Edward on his first birthday, way back in March 1992.<\/p>\n

Roll on 20 years, and suddenly (so it seems) here he is on his 21st birthday:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Time sure speeds along, so much faster than I ever thought possible. I have forgotten so much about Ed’s early years and I can never go back and recapture the memories. I am thankful for photographs and the recall of others, but how I wish I had written down more of the stories of his toddlerhood and primary school years to go with the photographs I have – and for all the daily events for which there are no pictures at all.<\/p>\n

I am so glad I have diaries from 2002, and that I have made scrapbook pages documenting our lives from then onwards. The stories are as important as the photographs – so if you are hesitant about writing things down, please don’t be! Do it<\/strong> – either in a physical diary or using an on-line service such as OhLifeI<\/a> or DailyDiary<\/a>. <\/em>Make notes on your calendar, scribble in a notebook – but please help your memory out, because in 20 years you won’t remember the things you wish you did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This blue-eyed cutie is Edward on his first birthday, way back in March 1992. Roll on 20 years, and suddenly (so it seems) here he is on his 21st birthday: Time sure speeds along, so much faster than I ever … 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":[28],"tags":[29,30,20],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","tag-birthdays","tag-diary-keeping","tag-ed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}