{"id":24,"date":"2016-05-02T04:16:09","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T11:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sonjaerickson.com\/?p=24"},"modified":"2016-06-10T21:32:27","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T04:32:27","slug":"grandpa-bob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sonjaerickson.com\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Grandpa Bob"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I am missing my Grandpa Bob. \u00a0He was the coolest. \u00a0He was curious, kind, generous, goofy, could not spell, loved his family well, and was very impatient. \u00a0He loved butterscotch candies and cheeseburgers. \u00a0And I often found him snacking on Saltines with mayonnaise spread on top. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Today Benjamin was asking about him. \u00a0You see we were talking about my grandma Ginny and how we missed her – it has been a year since she passed away. \u00a0And Ben was saying how he missed going to visit her with my mom. I am so thankful he got to have a relationship with my grandma. \u00a0But he never knew Grandpa Bob, because Grandpa passed away just weeks before Ben was born. \u00a0And Ben started to cry, I mean really sob because he didn\u2019t get to know Grandpa Bob. \u00a0Which makes me cry. \u00a0Because those two would have loved each other. \u00a0There is so much in Ben that reminds me of my Grandpa.<\/p>\n

Ben loves hanging out with people – always up for a get together or dinner party – just like Grandpa. \u00a0Ben is curious and wants to learn about big animals, or things in space or how exactly some machine works. \u00a0Grandpa was so curious. \u00a0I think the internet was the best thing that ever happened to Grandpa in his retirement – because he could just learn all day long. \u00a0He was a lifelong learner and the only person I know besides my professor who read my entire 150 page thesis when I was in Grad School. \u00a0After he read my paper he had a stack of questions for me. \u00a0He was so proud of me. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My Grandpa was also so generous – he never made a lot of money, but he lived simply and saved wisely. \u00a0Every time I visited him in college (which I did often since we were both in California at the time) he would fill my car up with gas, wash my car, and stick a $20 bill in the viser for later. \u00a0And every trip he would make sure to take me to McDonald\u2019s for breakfast to check in on my life. \u00a0So generous with his time as well.<\/p>\n

So Ben I wish you could have met Grandpa Bob. \u00a0Your life is more interesting because of his legacy. \u00a0Thankfully my mom has a lot of Grandpa Bob in her, and I think so do I. \u00a0So hopefully Ben will get to know him through us. \u00a0Miss you Grandpa!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I am missing my Grandpa Bob. \u00a0He was the coolest. \u00a0He was curious, kind, generous, goofy, could not spell, loved his family well, and was very impatient. \u00a0He loved butterscotch candies and cheeseburgers. \u00a0And I often found him snacking on Saltines with mayonnaise spread on top. \u00a0 Today Benjamin was asking about him. \u00a0You […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sonjaerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sonjaerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sonjaerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sonjaerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sonjaerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sonjaerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"http:\/\/www.sonjaerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sonjaerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sonjaerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sonjaerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}