{"id":985,"date":"2011-07-26T20:16:31","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T02:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/?p=985"},"modified":"2011-07-26T20:24:25","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T02:54:25","slug":"jaybird-gerry-and-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/?p=985","title":{"rendered":"Jaybird, Gerry and Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_986\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/GERRY.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-986\" src=\"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/GERRY.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"GERRY\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-986\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-986\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aunt Gerry<\/p><\/div><strong>They say there is one<\/strong> in every family. That is, one whose passion for uncovering the secrets of their heritage leads to hours of research, pursuing small leads, and if fortunate enough to hit the family historians jackpot&#8211;discovering ancestral photographs&#8230;.but in this case also <strong>MOVIES!!<\/strong><br \/>\nNow the first time I had called Jaybird (I will call him Robert) we had a lengthy discussion about everything. How do you fill in the gaps of FORTY YEARS??? You don&#8217;t. You can&#8217;t. You need a pot of coffee and a table. So hopefully this meeting will happen soon. In the next few weeks or so.<br \/>\nKeep Aunt Gerry in your prayers as her health has been fragile lately. Gerry is a survivor, though, she has out-lived all the adult legends so far. And what we once thought that our sister Barbara was the exsisting elder, Aunt Gerry has taken the lead.<br \/>\nWhen I called them, ironically, Jaybird (I will call him Robert) Gerry and Las Vegas were watching some HOME MOVIES that Mr. Jones (Gerrys husband, our uncle, Jaybirds {I will call him Robert} father) had made. That to me is just too incredible to even comprehend!! As we were speaking on the phone, Jaybird (I will call him Robert) was giving me the play by play of the home movies.<br \/>\nIn the last few months I have had dreams with my Dad in them. These dreams were so real and so surreal to see my father actually &#8220;MOVING&#8221;&#8230;.it sounds strange but I haven&#8217;t seen him walk or talk or MOVE in forty years&#8230;so it will be quite an experience to see these movies. I hope and pray that I have this opportunity. I hope that there may be a way to preserve them, digitalize them somehow, someway.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_996\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BandN1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-996\" src=\"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BandN1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"BandN\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-996\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BandN1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BandN1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BandN1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">view from my lap<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<strong>I have been trying to understand<\/strong> my desire to find people. My curiosity increases with every little dig. I have been rightfully accused of &#8220;living in the past&#8221; Like this: Get on with it. Why do you care? The future is now. I realize that I am not really sure who I am. I have no roots. I need, want my own doorway to walk into. (after all you have to start somewhere) What is so wrong about heritage research??<br \/>\n<em>If all you got to live for is what you left behind,<br \/>\nGet yourself a powder charge and seal that silver mine.<br \/>\nLost my boots in transit, baby, pile of smokin&#8217; leather.<br \/>\nI nailed a retread to my feet and prayed for better weather.<\/em><br \/>\n-Robert Hunter<br \/>\nYeah, I&#8217;m on my way.<br \/>\n<strong>Healing comes in strange disguises<\/strong> and in most cases the greatest disguise is a LONG WAIT. So time heals all wounds, I stray from the spirit yet I am not far from the essence. I am constantly being tested. It is so easy to <strong>HATE<\/strong> someone. Catch yourself before you become immersed in hatred and see what you can do to turn it around&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong>BOOKSTORE BLUES<\/strong><br \/>\nI am greatly inspired by books and magazines. I could sit on the floor in Barnes and Noble all day flipping through pages. I don&#8217;t consider myself a theif&#8230;just an inspired fisherman.<br \/>\nThat is all for now.<br \/>\n<strong>NEXT WEEK:<\/strong> The Jones Gang<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say there is one in every family. That is, one whose passion for uncovering the secrets of their heritage leads to hours of research, pursuing small leads, and if fortunate enough to hit the family historians jackpot&#8211;discovering ancestral photographs&#8230;.but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/?p=985\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[177,179,184,224],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jones","tag-diane-jones","tag-geraldine-jones","tag-jaybird-jones","tag-los-vegas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}