{"id":192,"date":"2010-03-15T20:06:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T01:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/?p=192"},"modified":"2010-04-19T12:36:38","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T17:36:38","slug":"85-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/2010\/03\/85-years\/","title":{"rendered":"85 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Grandpa and Grandma Daneman<\/p><\/div>\n

Saturday night we had a milestone birthday party. Grandpa Daneman turned 85 on Tuesday, March 9th, so, of course,\u00a0we had a party.\u00a0In case you’re curious about the details, Bryan’s\u00a0Uncle Scott and Aunt Vicky hosted the party. We had a few appetizers, steak, chicken, mashed potatoes, a couple types of salad, green beans, and,\u00a0of course yummy-rific (yes, that’s a word) chocolate birthday cake made by\u00a0Grandma and Grandpa’s good friend Chick Sham,\u00a0and\u00a0a choice of ice creams. Pretty much the whole family was there along with\u00a0several friends.\u00a0My sister and brother-in-law, Tracy and Steven, and\u00a0my niece and nephew, Eliana and Elijah, came up from Austin, even! It was a full house and a wonderful time.<\/p>\n

Now, allow me to just ramble a bit–really, what choice do you have? It’s my blog, so I’ll do what I want. 85 years. . . that milestone is so amazing to me. Grandpa has seen so much in his life, and he’s willing to share it with us. Here is a man who is truly a part of the Greatest Generation. He fought in WWII in the 10th Mountain Division in the mountains of Italy–his memoirs of his 10th Mountain Division days, Do Well or Die<\/em>, will be published soon. He married his high school love and in their 60+ years together, they’ve raised 4 boys and now enjoy their\u00a010 grandkids (not counting the grandkids’ spouses – then it goes up to 14 grandkids)\u00a0and 4 (soon to be 6) great-grandkids. Grandpa is still in relatively great health for his 85 years. He and Grandma still travel, live independently, and generally make everyone’s lives greater just by being. Now, I never had a grandpa before marrying Bryan. My mom’s father passed away when she was 7; and my dad’s father was killed a few years before I was born. Grandpa Daneman is the Grandpa I never had, and I’m so grateful for him. Grandma and Grandpa mean even more to me recently, as I lost my last grandparent, Nana (mom’s mom), in December. So, Grandpa, Happy Birthday, and here’s to many more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday night we had a milestone birthday party. Grandpa Daneman turned 85 on Tuesday, March 9th, so, of course,\u00a0we had a party.\u00a0In case you’re curious about the details, Bryan’s\u00a0Uncle Scott and Aunt Vicky hosted the party. We had a few appetizers, steak, chicken, mashed potatoes, a couple types of salad, green beans, and,\u00a0of course yummy-rific […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}