{"id":10450,"date":"2020-07-24T12:42:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T19:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=10450"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:13:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:13:16","slug":"tell-me-tell-me-tell-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2020\/07\/24\/tell-me-tell-me-tell-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell Me Tell Me Tell Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tell Me Tell Me Tell Me<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I board the airplane to see my parents. They live far away and long ago<br \/>\nAnd some years into the future; you never met such wry time machines<br \/>\nIn your life. Sometimes they will be about to pass the marmalade when<br \/>\nSuddenly it is late 1941 and they are in college and kissing on the train;<br \/>\nBut then as you slather your toast it is 1967 and a war wants to eat their<br \/>\nSon or 2012 and they are at that son\u2019s wake or 1929 and a father comes<br \/>\nHome without his job, or it is a week ago, and do you think that Federer<br \/>\nIs the finest tennis player ever, or Laver, or Don Budge? It happens that<br \/>\nFast. It\u2019s unnerving and glorious and confusing and perfect and I would<br \/>\nSit with them every afternoon, if I could, and say tell me tell me tell me,<br \/>\nTell me every moment of your whole lives, don\u2019t leave me here without<br \/>\nYour grace and humor and the extraordinary gleaming jar of marmalade<br \/>\nFrom which come all your stories. Next year in Ireland . . . says my mother,<br \/>\nAnd my dad grins, and I want to kneel and beg the Lord for this moment<br \/>\nAgain and again always, the inarguable yes of their bodies, the resonance<br \/>\nOf their endurance, the hunch and hollow of their shoulders, the reverent<br \/>\nGeography of their faces, the lean song of my father\u2019s hands on the table.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/books\/2017\/05\/brian_doyle.html\">Brian Doyle<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tell Me Tell Me Tell Me I board the airplane to see my parents. They live far away and long ago And some years into the future; you never met such wry time machines In your life. Sometimes they will be about to pass the marmalade when Suddenly it is late 1941 and they are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30,219],"tags":[140,152,228,227,229],"class_list":["post-10450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-quotes","category-spirit","tag-death","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-parents","tag-poetry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10450"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10464,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10450\/revisions\/10464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}