{"id":4801,"date":"2012-11-23T13:57:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T18:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=4801"},"modified":"2012-11-23T13:57:50","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T18:57:50","slug":"mother-grandfather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=4801","title":{"rendered":"LIKE MOTHER, LIKE GRANDFATHER"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4801 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/botany-14777.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/botany-14777-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4802\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/botany-14777-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/botany-14777-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4802'>\n\t\t\t\tFLOWER DRAWN BY STEPHEN LIRAKIS 1967\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\/2012\/11\/MAL-2-3-44-2833.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/MAL-2-3-44-2833-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4803\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/MAL-2-3-44-2833-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/MAL-2-3-44-2833-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4803'>\n\t\t\t\tLOBSTER DRAWN BY MY MOTHER 1943\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wga-3-7-14-2794.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wga-3-7-14-2794-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wga-3-7-14-2794-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wga-3-7-14-2794-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4804'>\n\t\t\t\tLOBSTER DRAWN BY MY 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href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wsl-geology-2742.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wsl-geology-2742-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4806\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wsl-geology-2742-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wsl-geology-2742-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4806'>\n\t\t\t\tHORSESHOE CRAB DRAWN BY STEPHEN LIRAKIS 1967\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/MAL-5-26-44-2855.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/MAL-5-26-44-2855-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4807\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/MAL-5-26-44-2855-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/MAL-5-26-44-2855-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4807'>\n\t\t\t\tFLOWERS DRAWN BY MY MOTHER 1944\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I am not in line at Best Buy or any other store. I have a little trouble with the logic of shopping in crowds and traffic. I am instead doing chores at home and working and shopping by computer; eating leftover turkey. I have had for many years the drawings from my grandfather and my mother and myself. I have not looked at them in years; having had the intention of scanning them for the future. It was one of those daunting tasks that is easily put off.<\/p>\n<p>My grandfather&#8217;s drawings were done when he was working summers at Wood&#8217;s Hole, while at Harvard Medical School. My mother&#8217;s from Biology lab while at BU and mine while at URI.<\/p>\n<p>It is clear that I did not share the same delicate hand as those who came before, even if in my mind I thought I did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not in line at Best Buy or any other store. I have a little trouble with the logic of shopping in crowds and traffic. I am instead doing chores at home and working and shopping by computer; eating leftover turkey. I have had for many years the drawings from my grandfather and my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=4801\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LIKE MOTHER, LIKE GRANDFATHER<\/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":[1509,2498],"class_list":["post-4801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","tag-drawings","tag-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801","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=4801"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4811,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions\/4811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}