{"id":282,"date":"2012-03-29T21:22:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T06:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/koponenalaska.wordpress.com\/?p=282"},"modified":"2012-03-29T21:22:09","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T06:22:09","slug":"spring-starts-2012-84-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"Spring starts 2012: 84 years!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunshine and warmth on the beautiful white soft snow&#8230;but no pussywillow buds yet!<\/p>\n<p>All 5 Niilo &amp; Joan children, plus 2 grandkids, were at Chena Ridge the week of Niilo&#8217;s 84th birthday, March 6th.  We enjoyed lunch with Niilo, reminiscing over photo albums with Joan, family meals, toboganning, anagrams and other games, and a visit home by Niilo! (Unfortunately, it was not at his more-awake time of day, which is actually usually evening&#8230;)<br \/>\nIf only out-of-town family members could have stayed longer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Niilo has had periods of greater alertness in the past few months, seeming to understand us despite his hearing loss, and speaking a few words.  Recent considerable knee pain seems to have been pretty well relieved by joint aspiration and injection of steroid.  We hope the benefit lasts a long time.<\/p>\n<p>Niilo also visited his dental team, who treat him so kindly.  He opens wide for Chris, his long-time dental hygienist, and knows to close his lips over the suction tube for best effect.  <\/p>\n<p>The homestead continues to have fix-it projects, but it&#8217;s still standing after almost 60 years, whereas many commercial and other buildings that were younger have been torn down!<\/p>\n<p>Best wishes for a warm and peaceful spring!<\/p>\n<p>Heather<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunshine and warmth on the beautiful white soft snow&#8230;but no pussywillow buds yet! All 5 Niilo &amp; Joan children, plus 2 grandkids, were at Chena Ridge the week of Niilo&#8217;s 84th birthday, March 6th. We enjoyed lunch with Niilo, reminiscing over photo albums with Joan, family meals, toboganning, anagrams and other games, and a visit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}