{"id":2045,"date":"2014-04-23T00:33:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T00:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/?p=2045"},"modified":"2014-04-23T00:35:59","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T00:35:59","slug":"say-anything-anything-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/23\/say-anything-anything-at-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Say Anything &#8211; Anything At All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/sayanything.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2046 alignleft\" alt=\"sayanything\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/sayanything.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/sayanything.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/sayanything.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/sayanything.jpg?resize=624%2C468&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/sayanything.jpg?w=1120&amp;ssl=1 1120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/monkeysee\/2014\/04\/13\/302712465\/say-anything-at-25-nothing-bought-sold-or-processed?utm_campaign=storyshare&amp;utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Say Anything turned 25<\/a> last week.\u00a0 \u00a0My lovely older son, now a father, was sick.\u00a0 Cold.\u00a0 Fever.\u00a0 But we had planned to go with his friend Ivan to see it in Chelsea at a funky old theater there.\u00a0 Bad mother that I was, I took them, Kleenex and all.<\/p>\n<p>I was rewarded with wonderful memories \u2013 I could see the wheels turning in their 14-year-old heads as this very special love story unfolded.\u00a0 I could see it as we left the theater.\u00a0 There is something about that particular tale and its lessons of acceptance and growth and loyalty and disappointment and joy \u2013 and music \u2013 that have impact well beyond the sum of their very substantial parts.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so glad someone remembered, so I get to remember too.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say Anything turned 25 last week.\u00a0 \u00a0My lovely older son, now a father, was sick.\u00a0 Cold.\u00a0 Fever.\u00a0 But we had planned to go with his friend Ivan to see it in Chelsea at a funky old theater there.\u00a0 Bad mother that I was, I took them, Kleenex and all. I was rewarded with wonderful memories &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/23\/say-anything-anything-at-all\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Say Anything &#8211; Anything At All<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,42,28,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-family","category-film","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-wZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2045"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2050,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions\/2050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}