{"id":607,"date":"2023-10-19T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimandthelly.com\/?p=607"},"modified":"2023-10-19T16:47:45","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T16:47:45","slug":"letter-26-feb-23-1948","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimandthelly.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/19\/letter-26-feb-23-1948\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter 26 \u2013 Feb. 23, 1948"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

View letter scans<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a shame to leave this space empty but I can\u2019t think of anything to fill it up with. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feb<\/span> 23, 1948<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:30 P.M.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hellow Little One,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m back again. Your pen pal to the very end. I\u2019m just writing this so that I can catch up to your boyfriend (ex- that is). As far as I\u2019m concerned, though, one of my letters is far better than 100 of any other boys, so you had better save them. When I become famous, (as I understandably will) they may be worth money, if you care to bare my innermost passions for the benefit of society and a few paltry bucks ($).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ah well, such is life (and punctuation), I guess I can\u2019t help it if I\u2019m conceited. With such a wonderful girl as you are who loves me, who wouldn\u2019t be conceited? (Self-Justification) That\u2019s not meant as a wisecrack, either. Enough!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve got my studying done so I can just dream over this letter (Reverie) and listen to music on \u201cmon petite\u201d radio. I wonder if I should take a shower or just go to bed. (Decision) Don\u2019t mind the little remarks, I\u2019m just learning English the right way – By experiment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I forgot to ask you who you were playing Friday. I guess you\u2019ll just have to write me another letter to tell me. Let me see – – – I\u2019ll expect it about Friday at 10:50 A.M. O.K.?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you know its 11:20 now? I\u2019ve just been sitting here listening to music, news and thinking of you all at the same time. Impossible?<\/span> That\u2019s what you think. The news and music serve as background, of course. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can you think of anything to say besides \u201cI love you\u201d. I can\u2019t but it seems rather silly to just write that over again & again. I can say it once and put all I have into it. The rest of them would just be echoes to keep you from forgetting it. As I read this last paragraph over it seems to be a little mixed up. Oh well, you know what I mean, if you don\u2019t I\u2019ll tell you later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time to turn in so I\u2019ll see you Friday. I\u2019ll write again when I get your letter Wed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goodnite darlin\u2019, give \u201cJunior\u201d a pat on the head for me (Ouch, OK, I\u2019ll be good.) Goodnite little one, I love you – – – Oops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Drawn musical notes] There, I\u2019ve Said It Again<\/a>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Can you think of anything to say besides \u201cI love you\u201d. I can\u2019t but it seems rather silly to just write that over again & again. I can say it once and put all I have into it. The rest of them would just be echoes to keep you from forgetting it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimandthelly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimandthelly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimandthelly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimandthelly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimandthelly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jimandthelly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"https:\/\/jimandthelly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimandthelly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimandthelly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimandthelly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimandthelly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}