{"id":500,"date":"2015-12-03T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/my-solution-to-the-miss-my-sons-doldrums\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T18:47:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T18:47:32","slug":"my-solution-to-the-miss-my-sons-doldrums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/03\/my-solution-to-the-miss-my-sons-doldrums\/","title":{"rendered":"MY SOLUTION TO THE &#8220;MISS MY SONS&#8221; DOLDRUMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Missing my sons is nothing extraordinary. &nbsp;Every mother feels the same. &nbsp;But, yesterday, the feeling became heartache. &nbsp;So I decided to take action. &nbsp;I baked their favorite cake. &nbsp;So&#8230;the activity and preparation made me smile because of the memories. &nbsp;It also gave me a chance to take photographs to share with them. &nbsp;Christmas reunion will be here soon. &nbsp;I will have to bake one for them when I get there. &nbsp;(My former students can also attest to the cake&#8217;s yumminess).<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-boS1k0D_e8g\/VmBsVhwnFZI\/AAAAAAAABAQ\/ANDVbj4l7ME\/s1600\/Cake%2Bbatter.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Cake2Bbatter.jpg\" width=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Cake batter &#8211; the before<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-ckxCjxI9Y50\/VmBsZmjV_NI\/AAAAAAAABAY\/d7Oq7GIsCpI\/s1600\/Cake%2Bready.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Cake2Bready.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Cake cooked &#8211; the after<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missing my sons is nothing extraordinary. &nbsp;Every mother feels the same. &nbsp;But, yesterday, the feeling became heartache. &nbsp;So I decided to take action. &nbsp;I baked their favorite cake. &nbsp;So&#8230;the activity and preparation made me smile because of the memories. &nbsp;It also gave me a chance to take photographs to share with them. &nbsp;Christmas reunion will &#8230; <a title=\"MY SOLUTION TO THE &#8220;MISS MY SONS&#8221; DOLDRUMS\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/03\/my-solution-to-the-miss-my-sons-doldrums\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about MY SOLUTION TO THE &#8220;MISS MY SONS&#8221; DOLDRUMS\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3068,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/3068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}