{"id":5286,"date":"2022-05-10T20:14:24","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T10:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/?p=5286"},"modified":"2026-09-04T13:44:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T03:44:24","slug":"baby-relics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/2022\/05\/baby-relics\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Relics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A couple of weeks ago, my good friend and former housemate Shirley was sorting through a box in her shed and found my old christening mug tucked in among her things. We last shared a house around 28 years ago, and neither of us had any idea she still had it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is looking very shiny now after hubby attacked it with a polishing cloth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then tonight, Mum messaged to say she had found the little gold bracelet I wore as a baby. It had disappeared years ago, when I was still a toddler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two tiny pieces of my childhood, unexpectedly finding their way back to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large wp-duotone-dark-grayscale\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"760\" src=\"http:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/PXL_20220509_043828560-scaled-e1788493396836-1024x760.jpg\" alt=\"photo of shiny silver christening mug\" class=\"wp-image-5289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/PXL_20220509_043828560-scaled-e1788493396836-1024x760.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/PXL_20220509_043828560-scaled-e1788493396836-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/PXL_20220509_043828560-scaled-e1788493396836-150x111.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/PXL_20220509_043828560-scaled-e1788493396836-768x570.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/PXL_20220509_043828560-scaled-e1788493396836-1536x1140.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/PXL_20220509_043828560-scaled-e1788493396836-820x609.jpg 820w, https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/PXL_20220509_043828560-scaled-e1788493396836.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two little pieces of my childhood, both long thought lost, found their way back to me within weeks of each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[384],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5286"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6588,"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5286\/revisions\/6588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}