{"id":568,"date":"2016-04-30T20:23:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T01:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/subnivean.com\/blog\/?p=568"},"modified":"2016-05-01T10:41:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T15:41:12","slug":"a-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/subnivean.com\/blog\/a-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"a gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/subnivean.com\/blog\/tag\/antonia\/\">Mother Antonia<\/a>: Interviewed M. Antonia&#8217;s niece. I felt presumptuous calling on her; but she was quite forthright and willing to talk about her aunt. When I asked her what she would like people to remember about M. Antonia, she told me about the time she (the niece) was baptismal sponsor for a friend who was converting to Catholicism. Just as they were getting ready to go into the church, a car pulled up, and out came M. Antonia, despite having recently suffered a stroke. &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t miss this,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Today, she is without sin.&#8221; Formidable as she was, she was also the kind of aunt who showed up for her niece&#8217;s important occasions, and there is something very dear about that.<\/p>\n<p>I also (I think) got a little taste of what may be a family aptitude for managing time, in that when she was done talking to me, M. Antonia&#8217;s niece said, &#8220;I think that&#8217;s all I have.&#8221; Polite but clear and firm: dismissed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mother Antonia: Interviewed M. Antonia&#8217;s niece. I felt presumptuous calling on her; but she was quite forthright and willing to talk about her aunt. When I asked her what she would like people to remember about M. Antonia, she told me about the time she (the niece) was baptismal sponsor for a friend who was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"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":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-projectdiary","tag-meeting","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/subnivean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/subnivean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/subnivean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/subnivean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/subnivean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/subnivean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":569,"href":"https:\/\/subnivean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/subnivean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/subnivean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/subnivean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}