{"id":3588,"date":"2022-01-15T21:47:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T02:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.springfieldfarm.org\/?p=3588"},"modified":"2022-01-15T21:47:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T02:47:07","slug":"the-clock-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.springfieldfarm.org\/?p=3588","title":{"rendered":"The Clock is Here"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My Mother &amp; Father bought this USMMA commemorative clock in December of 1985, the year I graduated from the Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Pt, NY.  Over the years my Dad always told me from time to time; &#8220;<em>when we go to &#8216;boot hill&#8217;, I want you to have this clock<\/em>&#8220;.  I always replied, &#8220;OK Dad&#8221;, thinking that day would never come.  Well, they aren&#8217;t in &#8216;boot hill&#8217; but they are both in memory care with dementia.  Me and the brothers went through their home over the past few weeks and today we all met to resolve who gets what and to start removing items. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The clock is here at the farm now.  It seems to run fine and keep time but the chimes aren&#8217;t working properly, I&#8217;ll get a local clock expert to come out and give it a tune-up,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What a depressing day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.springfieldfarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/PXL_20220115_234615427-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3586\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.springfieldfarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/PXL_20220115_234615427-576x1024.jpg 576w, http:\/\/www.springfieldfarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/PXL_20220115_234615427-169x300.jpg 169w, http:\/\/www.springfieldfarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/PXL_20220115_234615427-84x150.jpg 84w, http:\/\/www.springfieldfarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/PXL_20220115_234615427-768x1365.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.springfieldfarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/PXL_20220115_234615427-864x1536.jpg 864w, http:\/\/www.springfieldfarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/PXL_20220115_234615427-1152x2048.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.springfieldfarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/PXL_20220115_234615427-scaled.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><figcaption>USMMA Commemorative Clock<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Mother &amp; Father bought this USMMA commemorative clock in December of 1985, the year I graduated from the Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Pt, NY. Over the years my Dad always told me from time to time; &#8220;when we &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.springfieldfarm.org\/?p=3588\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.springfieldfarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.springfieldfarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.springfieldfarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.springfieldfarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.springfieldfarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.springfieldfarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3589,"href":"http:\/\/www.springfieldfarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions\/3589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.springfieldfarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.springfieldfarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.springfieldfarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}