{"id":376,"date":"2007-03-26T22:17:31","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T02:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=376"},"modified":"2007-03-26T22:17:31","modified_gmt":"2007-03-27T02:17:31","slug":"wolfe-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=376","title":{"rendered":"Wolfe visit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arlene and I went to New Jersey for a baby naming last weekend. On the way, just past the TZ, we took a short detour to visit my uncle Irving. He’s really my mother’s first cousin, so my cousin once removed. You can probably find a web page about his ninetieth birthday party (over four years ago!) somewhere on this domain, if you look from the top — oh, maybe here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Evelyn —<\/p>\n

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and Irv —<\/p>\n

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— look just about the same as always. There weren’t as many political posters up in the living\/dining room as I remembered, but maybe I was thinking of the cellar. There are lots of pictures of major leftist heros, from Mother Jones and Eugene Debs through Che and Fidel to I don’t know who, hanging on the wall of the carport. Irv moved his car so we could see them all.<\/p>\n

Evelyn showed us her iPhoto collection of pictures of the paintings she had had in a one-woman show a couple of months ago. We chatted about various relatives, had lunch, and watched all the birds — quantities of mourning doves, chickadees, titmice, nuthatches, and a couple of fox sparrows — outside their dining room window. They have a string of about five big bird feeders, the kind with a hopper between two sheets of glass or plexiglas that take two pounds of seed each, with a tray below each that holds whatever spills from the top ones, all on a big squirrel-proofed pole. Irv says they go through several hundred pounds of bird food every winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arlene and I went to New Jersey for a baby naming last weekend. On the way, just past the TZ, we took a short detour to visit my uncle Irving. He’s really my mother’s first cousin, so my cousin once removed. You can probably find a web page about his ninetieth birthday party (over four … <\/p>\n

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