{"id":55,"date":"2015-12-15T07:39:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T12:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/?p=55"},"modified":"2015-12-17T23:44:55","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T04:44:55","slug":"who-am-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"Who am me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_4435.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-59\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-59\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_4435.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"IMG_4435\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_4435.jpg?resize=300%2C200 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_4435.jpg?resize=768%2C511 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_4435.jpg?resize=1024%2C681 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_4435.jpg?w=1936 1936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_4440.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-60\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_4440.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"IMG_4440\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_4440.jpg?resize=300%2C200 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_4440.jpg?resize=768%2C511 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_4440.jpg?resize=1024%2C681 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_4440.jpg?w=1936 1936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>August 31, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Maya dear,<\/p>\n<p>As I make this entry, you are drifting off to sleep (hopefully) with your three friends, Noam, Gabriel and Tuli, for it is your last night of being seven and you are celebrating turning eight. It\u2019s a whirlwind of a party as you started at the Inner Wall. \u00a0You then chose to have dinner at Rocco\u2019s (though Rocco\u2019s was not your first choice, you decided to go there because you were thinking of your friends).\u00a0 When we came home, you indulged in balloon playing, a movie, cake, presents and bed time by the fire. \u00a0Tomorrow, we go to Moriello Pool.\u00a0 Quite a party; quite a life!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_4429.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-58\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-58\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_4429.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"IMG_4429\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_4429.jpg?resize=300%2C200 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_4429.jpg?resize=768%2C511 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_4429.jpg?resize=1024%2C681 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_4429.jpg?w=1936 1936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A couple of weeks ago as you were bathing, you got quite serious. \u201cMommy, I\u2019ve been wondering\u2026wondering about who I am.\u00a0 I mean, I know I\u2019m a sister and a daughter and all, but I still don\u2019t really know who I am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s amazing to me Maya, that at seven plus years old, you are wrestling with this philosophical question. I shared with you this amazement and how some wrestle with it all their lives.\u00a0 I suggested to you to just \u201cbe.\u201d\u00a0 The catch is \u201cbeing\u201d means \u201cbeing me.\u201d\u00a0 This brought you back to \u201cwho am me?\u201d\u00a0 Pretty deep!<\/p>\n<p>Mommy<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_4326.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-57\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_4326.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"IMG_4326\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_4326.jpg?resize=300%2C200 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_4326.jpg?resize=768%2C511 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_4326.jpg?resize=1024%2C681 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_4326.jpg?w=1936 1936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 31, 2008. Maya dear, As I make this entry, you are drifting off to sleep (hopefully) with your three friends, Noam, Gabriel and Tuli, for it is your last night of being seven and you are celebrating turning eight. It\u2019s a whirlwind of a party as you started at the Inner Wall. \u00a0You then&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-depth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p720L0-T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"http:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}