{"id":1734,"date":"2022-01-06T11:10:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T11:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2022-01-06T11:10:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T11:10:03","slug":"the-epiphany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1734","title":{"rendered":"The Epiphany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pa-2020-2022-010404-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1737\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pa-2020-2022-010404-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pa-2020-2022-010404-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pa-2020-2022-010404-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pa-2020-2022-010404-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pa-2020-2022-010404-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pa-2020-2022-010404-1639x2048.jpg 1639w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pa-2020-2022-010404-1200x1500.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pa-2020-2022-010404-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Today\u2019s one of my sister\u2019s birthdays, and if you\u2019re the oldest in your family, as I am, you know which one that is. Yep, the one born after you. Still, I enjoyed a couple of lovely gap years with my parents all to myself until \u201cCissy Marie\u201d arrived on the scene. \u00a0My mother supposedly caught 2 1\/2 year-old me occasionally \u201cbonding\u201d with my younger sibling, telling her \u201cI love you Cissy-Marie\u201d while I gave her little smacks across the face. From photos of us as toddlers together, it\u2019s apparent she grew on me eventually. By the time sisters three and four arrived on the scene, I\u2019d pretty much resigned myself to sharing the spotlight, and usually enjoyed having them around. I realize now that my sisters were the best gifts my parents could ever have given me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s one of my sister\u2019s birthdays, and if you\u2019re the oldest in your family, as I am, you know which one that is. Yep, the one born after you. Still, I enjoyed a couple of lovely gap years with my parents all to myself until \u201cCissy Marie\u201d arrived on the scene. \u00a0My mother supposedly caught &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1734\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Epiphany&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[631],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1738,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions\/1738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}