{"id":228,"date":"2013-03-06T11:24:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T16:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/?p=228"},"modified":"2013-03-06T11:24:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T16:24:57","slug":"dieks-ten-bruggencate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/2013\/03\/dieks-ten-bruggencate\/","title":{"rendered":"Dieks ten Bruggencate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/id03702.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-229 alignleft\" alt=\"id03702\" src=\"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/id03702.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a>I never knew my paternal grandmother <a href=\"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/family\/family-e-o\/p3702.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Hendrika Johanna<\/a>, Dieks for short (<a href=\"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/family\/family-d-o\/p3702.htm\" target=\"_blank\">dutch link<\/a>), she died several years before I was born. Although her husband knew me, I have no memories of him either. So all I have is her pictures, and a few scraps from writings from my grandfather.<\/p>\n<p>They must have had a very good marriage. In the letter to my father on occasion of his marriage, grandfather writes:\u00a0 &#8220;if you give your wife the love of which Mother was an example, then I hope you will be as happy as Mother and I were for 28 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In her pictures she looks so gentle, so friendly, so happy. I wonder what she would have been like, if she hadn&#8217;t died so young! I wonder what I could have learned from her. And I wonder if my parents&#8217; marriage would have been different, if she had still been there to give a good example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never knew my paternal grandmother Hendrika Johanna, Dieks for short (dutch link), she died several years before I was born. Although her husband knew me, I have no memories of him either. So all I have is her pictures, and a few scraps from writings from my grandfather. They &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-bruggencate","tag-women","column","onecol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}