{"id":1295,"date":"2011-10-13T23:09:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T05:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raysofdisneyland.com\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2011-10-13T23:09:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T05:09:42","slug":"flashback-friday-a-trip-around-the-rivers-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raysofdisneyland.com\/?p=1295","title":{"rendered":"Flashback Friday – A Trip Around the Rivers of America"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

-Winnie the Pooh –<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Mark<\/a>My grandma’s favorite ride at Disneyland is the Mark Twain Riverboat. \u00c2\u00a0She could ride it over and over (and over) and never tire of it. \u00c2\u00a0We haven’t been able to take her to Disneyland in quite a few years and I know how much she wishes she could be cruising around the Rivers of America once again. \u00c2\u00a0A few weeks ago, my grandma got bronchitis and her health has been declining rapidly ever since. \u00c2\u00a0Two weeks ago, her doctor determined that she needed more aggressive treatment and admitted her to a rehab facility. \u00c2\u00a0Today, the doctor determined that she wouldn’t ever be able to return home – next week we will admit her to an assisted living facility. \u00c2\u00a0My grandma has lived with us since I was two, and the house feels especially empty tonight.<\/p>\n

As I was looking through old pictures from our first trip to Disneyland, I discovered this one and I could vividly remember the joy we were feeling when this photo was captured. \u00c2\u00a0As the years have gone on, and my grandma has become unable to travel with us, my mom and I typically opt to pass on the majestic Mark Twain. \u00c2\u00a0But, whenever we are in the Park and pass the river, we take a silent moment to reflect on how much my grandma loves that ride and the pure happiness that you could see in her eyes whenever she was on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. -Winnie the Pooh – My grandma’s favorite ride at Disneyland is the Mark Twain Riverboat. \u00c2\u00a0She could ride it over and over (and over) and never tire of it. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[372],"tags":[403,401,402],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashback-friday","tag-grandparents","tag-mark-twain-riverboat","tag-rivers-of-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raysofdisneyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raysofdisneyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raysofdisneyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raysofdisneyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raysofdisneyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/raysofdisneyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1320,"href":"https:\/\/raysofdisneyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions\/1320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raysofdisneyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raysofdisneyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raysofdisneyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}