{"id":1197,"date":"2013-12-20T13:04:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T13:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/20\/to-letty-and-marlo-with-thanks-my-free-to-be-grandson\/"},"modified":"2014-03-15T19:50:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T19:50:01","slug":"to-letty-and-marlo-with-thanks-my-free-to-be-grandson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/20\/to-letty-and-marlo-with-thanks-my-free-to-be-grandson\/","title":{"rendered":"To Letty and Marlo with Thanks: My Free to Be Grandson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My grandson Nate turned two yesterday. &#0160;He loves music. &#0160;And, a child of his era, music video. &#0160;We are avid watchers of Free to Be&#8230;You and Me clips.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_26FOHoaC78\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe>&#0160;<br \/>\n<br \/>This morning, this song, and the others, ran on a loop in my mind as I walked passed strollers and playgrounds in the park. &#0160; Not for the first time, I was overcome with gratitude to the two of you and the others who brought these songs to what is literally now generations of children. &#0160;It was a major factor in our home when our boys were little; it was even the school play at their elementary school. &#0160;Now it belongs to <em>their<\/em> children. &#0160;And, I suspect, those who follow.<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s become my go-to baby present to young families who don&#39;t already know it &#8211; and sometimes to those who do. &#0160;And, within a few bars Glad to Have a Friend Like You or When We Grow Up, can bring me to tears. &#0160;<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s everything we wished for our kids when they were little &#8211; all of us; it&#39;s a myriad of memories of all the hours we spent loving, dancing to and singing these wonderful songs as they became part of us.<\/p>\n<p>And so I presume, for all the moms and dads, sons and daughters, sisters and brothers &#0160;and teachers and friends &#8212; to thank you one more time, as I enter the third year of the second generation in our family to be &quot;free to be.&quot; &#0160;<\/p>\n<p>Glad to have a friend like you!<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My grandson Nate turned two yesterday. &#0160;He loves music. &#0160;And, a child of his era, music video. &#0160;We are avid watchers of Free to Be&#8230;You and Me clips.&#0160; &#0160; This morning, this song, and the others, ran on a loop in my mind as I walked passed strollers and playgrounds in the park. &#0160; Not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/20\/to-letty-and-marlo-with-thanks-my-free-to-be-grandson\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">To Letty and Marlo with Thanks: My Free to Be Grandson<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4,42],"tags":[50,49,48,43,46,47,45,10,44],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-baby-boom","category-family","tag-children","tag-education","tag-feminism","tag-free-to-be-you-and-me","tag-letty-cottin-pogrebin","tag-marlo-thomas","tag-ms","tag-music-2","tag-women-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-jj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1871,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions\/1871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}