{"id":1605,"date":"2020-09-01T23:11:32","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T03:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/?p=1605"},"modified":"2020-09-01T23:39:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T03:39:58","slug":"twenty-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/?p=1605","title":{"rendered":"Twenty in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is something significant about today.&nbsp; Yes, 2020 is a new decade for us all.&nbsp; September 1, 2020 is Maya\u2019s 20<sup>th<\/sup> birthday.&nbsp; While I generally know how to express myself, it seems like there is a word I cannot put my finger on in the English language.&nbsp; I am experiencing a paradox around time.&nbsp; There is something about time being frozen and time moving on, concurrently.&nbsp; Maya\u2019s life in her human form stopped at age 15 years old.&nbsp; Yet, we continue and time passes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"793\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/MayaGold.jpg?resize=793%2C1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/MayaGold-scaled.jpg?resize=793%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 793w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/MayaGold-scaled.jpg?resize=232%2C300&amp;ssl=1 232w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/MayaGold-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C992&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/MayaGold-scaled.jpg?resize=1189%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1189w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/MayaGold-scaled.jpg?resize=1585%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1585w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/MayaGold-scaled.jpg?w=1981&amp;ssl=1 1981w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/MayaGold-scaled.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 793px) 100vw, 793px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am likely not alone in having things in my possession that are long past their due.\u00a0 In our case, there has been a container of Umeboshi Plum Paste in the refrigerator for a very long time.\u00a0 It never goes bad, and we would only use a little bit of it at time.\u00a0 Maya, with her clever sense of humor, once put a label on the container, \u201cImmortal Paste.\u201d\u00a0 In an odd way, there is comfort for me to keep this container.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/immortal-paste.jpg?w=960\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1602\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The loosestrife still blooms on September 1.&nbsp; We eat luscious peaches and pick raspberries.&nbsp; The nights are beginning to get a bit cooler, as they always have during this time.&nbsp; Happy birthday, Maya.&nbsp; We love you always and miss you deeply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_20200901_154311.jpg?w=960\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1604\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is something significant about today.&nbsp; Yes, 2020 is a new decade for us all.&nbsp; September 1, 2020 is Maya\u2019s 20th birthday.&nbsp; While I generally know how to express myself, it seems like there is a word I cannot put my finger on in the English language.&nbsp; I am experiencing a paradox around time.&nbsp; There&#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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gifts-since"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p720L0-pT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1607,"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions\/1607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}