{"id":29085,"date":"2025-08-01T01:47:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T09:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=29085"},"modified":"2025-08-01T08:19:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T16:19:45","slug":"29085","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=29085","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY MOM!<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/mom-01000047929-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/mom-01000047929-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"758\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/mom-01000047929-1.jpg 560w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/mom-01000047929-1-244x330.jpg 244w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/mom-01000047929-1-111x150.jpg 111w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 85vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congrats to my mother for her remarkable achievement after  a life of challenges, including the death of her mother in Estonia when she was very young, losing her father to the Russians at the beginning of WWII, being bombed while a prisoner of war working at a German hospital, learning English and adapting to a small fishing village in Alaska, working in a cannery, raising us kids, and a life that revolved around my dad, a commercial fisherman from Colorado who was often absent. You made it! <\/p>\n<p>(Photo:Andrea Wells)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY MOM! Congrats to my mother for her remarkable achievement after a life of challenges, including the death of her mother in Estonia when she was very young, losing her father to the Russians at the beginning of WWII, being bombed while a prisoner of war working at a German hospital, learning English &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=29085\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29085"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29106,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29085\/revisions\/29106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}