{"id":13347,"date":"2014-01-24T08:33:28","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T13:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=13347"},"modified":"2014-01-24T08:33:28","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T13:33:28","slug":"happy-60th-anniversary-mom-and-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/24\/happy-60th-anniversary-mom-and-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 60th anniversary, Mom and Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today  was supposed to have been my parents&#8217; 60th wedding anniversary. Sadly, my father passed on  January 27, 2009, three days after their 55th. My brother and I made a short film to celebrate their 25th anniversary back when I was 23 and  he was 19, and I&#8217;ve been watching it and getting weepy. <\/p>\n<p>And why keep that weepiness all to myself?<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2010, when I had a YouTube limit of 10 minutes or less, I uploaded the first two-thirds of it. Now that I&#8217;ve been freed from that limit, I&#8217;ll upload the whole thing someday, but for now, here&#8217;s most of what  my brother Lee and I screened for my parents and their friends  at the surprise party we threw for them in 1979.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C6mnheoz8Hk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This was made <em>way<\/em> before digital editing tools came around, so my brother filmed and animated it all, using equipment he borrowed from Brooklyn College, and we then created the soundtrack by speaking into a cassette tape recorder while playing records in the background.<\/p>\n<p>I know that my mother is thinking today about what should have been. So am I. <\/p>\n<p>And now, so are you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was supposed to have been my parents&#8217; 60th wedding anniversary. Sadly, my father passed on January 27, 2009, three days after their 55th. My brother and I made a short film to celebrate their 25th anniversary back when I was 23 and he was 19, and I&#8217;ve been watching it and getting weepy. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13347"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13356,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13347\/revisions\/13356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}