{"id":2857,"date":"2020-11-19T06:25:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T14:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/?p=2857"},"modified":"2021-01-28T11:34:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T19:34:09","slug":"bright-things-5-my-baby-toys-painted-by-my-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/?p=2857","title":{"rendered":"Bright Things #5: My Baby Toys, Painted by My Father"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em><strong>One of the themes of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/The-Memory-Collectors\/Kim-Neville\/9781982157586\">The Memory Collectors<\/a>&nbsp;is our relationship to physical objects \u2014 the memories, emotions, and power they hold for us. Every week leading up to the book\u2019s release, I\u2019ll share the story of an object that\u2019s special to me.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG-7960-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2859\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG-7960-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG-7960-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG-7960-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG-7960-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG-7960-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG-7960-1140x855.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div>This painting was a gift from my father on my 2nd birthday. It shows all of my favorite toys, including the blanket I carried around until it was in shreds. It hung in my bedroom when I was a child and later, in my daughter&#8217;s.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>I have other pieces of art by my father, but this one is special because he made it for me. Receiving this gift is one of my earliest memories. I remember the painting lying flat on the kitchen table, and my father pointing to each toy, to see if I recognized it.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>It delights me that here is a special object memorializing other objects that were once important to me. But mostly this painting reminds me of how loved I was, and am.<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the themes of&nbsp;The Memory Collectors&nbsp;is our relationship to physical objects \u2014 the memories, emotions, and power they hold for us. Every week leading up to the book\u2019s release, I\u2019ll share the story of an object that\u2019s special to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bright-things","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2857"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3060,"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions\/3060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}