{"id":4723,"date":"2010-04-20T00:13:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T05:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=4723"},"modified":"2018-09-25T03:06:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T22:06:27","slug":"happy-90th-birthday-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/happy-90th-birthday-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy (90th!) Birthday, Dad!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4724\" title=\"john_peters_studio\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/john_peters_studio.jpg\" alt=\"john_peters_studio\" width=\"437\" height=\"503\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4725\" title=\"john_peters_smiling\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/john_peters_smiling.jpg\" alt=\"john_peters_smiling\" width=\"437\" height=\"317\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4726\" title=\"john_peters_scree\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/john_peters_scree.jpg\" alt=\"john_peters_scree\" width=\"437\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4727\" title=\"john_peters_smiling_lake\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/john_peters_smiling_lake.jpg\" alt=\"john_peters_smiling_lake\" width=\"437\" height=\"285\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4728\" title=\"john_peters_geese\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/john_peters_geese.jpg\" alt=\"john_peters_geese\" width=\"437\" height=\"307\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4729\" title=\"john_peters_lying_in_snow\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/john_peters_lying_in_snow.jpg\" alt=\"john_peters_lying_in_snow\" width=\"437\" height=\"285\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Winnipeg, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><em><strong>Dad<\/strong><\/em><\/span>\u2014you were born on this day in 1920 into the tough conditions of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russian_Civil_War\" target=\"_blank\">Russian Civil War<\/a>,\u2014then happily escaped that conflicted land with your nuclear family to the new frontier of Western Canada a few years later. As I understand it, you\u2019ve been smiling pretty much ever since\u2026 at least that\u2019s the most pervasive and enduring trait that comes to my mind and memory (photos don\u2019t lie either :-)\u00a0 I remember a line from a magazine article (back about 40 years ago) that described you as\u00a0<em>\u201cthe genial jut-jawed John Jacob Peters\u201d<\/em>\u2014still as apt and appropriate a descriptor as anyone could possibly pen, methinks.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the faith and positive energy you\u2019ve imbued in my brothers and me (along with the thousands of others whom you have given the better part of your life to)\u2026 may the next ten years be your <em>best yet<\/em>\u2014and may your smile continue to warm the hearts and souls of everyone you meet!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><strong><em>I love you Dad. Happy, happy birthday&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>(Thanks to <a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=4688\" target=\"_blank\">brother Jim<\/a> for the image scans, from last summer\u2019s momentous <a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=1923\" target=\"_blank\">family get-together<\/a> in Pinawa.)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg, Canada Dad\u2014you were born on this day in 1920 into the tough conditions of the Russian Civil War,\u2014then happily escaped that conflicted land with your nuclear family to the new frontier of Western Canada a few years later. As I understand it, you\u2019ve been smiling pretty much ever since\u2026 at least that\u2019s the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,10,11,12,17,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16017,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4723\/revisions\/16017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}