{"id":1410,"date":"2014-03-19T19:44:27","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T03:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2024-08-06T13:10:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T21:10:03","slug":"moms-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/19\/moms-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom&#8217;s Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_20140315_142715.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"1411\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/19\/moms-hands\/img_20140315_142715\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_20140315_142715.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2448,2003\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Nexus 5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1394893636&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.97&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1410&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.05&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_20140315_142715\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_20140315_142715-300x245.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_20140315_142715-1024x837.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1411\" alt=\"IMG_20140315_142715\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_20140315_142715-300x245.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_20140315_142715-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_20140315_142715-150x122.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_20140315_142715-1024x837.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The other day, as I was holding Mom&#8217;s hands, I was struck by how much I love her hands and by how many emotions I feel as I look at them. I&#8217;m sure to most people, they look like ordinary hands, but when I see them I&#8217;m filled with memories of love and tenderness. I see the hours of labor she dedicated to blessing the lives of those most dear to her. I sense the commitment she showed to those she loved. I feel the calming and comforting peace she gave me in my times of grief or anguish. I feel the safety she provided to me as a child, the gentleness she used to guide me and teach me to walk in righteous paths. To me, these hands are the purest form of beauty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, as I was holding Mom&#8217;s hands, I was struck by how much I love her hands and by how many emotions I feel as I look at them. I&#8217;m sure to most people, they look like ordinary hands, but when I see them I&#8217;m filled with memories of love and tenderness. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[13],"tags":[274],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8WrW-mK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1412,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions\/1412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}