{"id":1549,"date":"2011-05-08T07:32:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T12:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2011-05-08T10:02:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T15:02:41","slug":"mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=1549","title":{"rendered":"MOTHER&#8217;S DAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1549 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/4-generations.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/4-generations-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1550\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1550'>\n\t\t\t\tmy mother, my great-grandmother, my grandmother, me\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/family-bagneres.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/family-bagneres-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1551\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1551'>\n\t\t\t\tmy wife bernadette with our children and her mother.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Mother&#8217;s day, when we pause to recognize mothers, who bore and nurtured us. Motherhood is a concept the is fundamental and essential to any society.<\/p>\n<p>Men are the leaders in most cultures; yet we are all born of women. \u00a0Those societies in which women are relegated to a secondary position, wrestle with these beliefs and do not know how to reconcile the essential place of a mother. It is curious how difficult a simple idea can be for so many.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/23251294?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;autoplay=1\" width=\"398\" height=\"224\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mother&#8217;s day, when we pause to recognize mothers, who bore and nurtured us. Motherhood is a concept the is fundamental and essential to any society. Men are the leaders in most cultures; yet we are all born of women. \u00a0Those societies in which women are relegated to a secondary position, wrestle with these beliefs and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=1549\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MOTHER&#8217;S DAY<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[454],"tags":[2523],"class_list":["post-1549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","tag-mothers-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1555,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions\/1555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}