{"id":1063,"date":"2006-01-06T23:14:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-07T05:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/01\/06\/lost-never-found\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:48:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:48:30","slug":"lost-never-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/01\/06\/lost-never-found\/","title":{"rendered":"LOST &#038; NEVER FOUND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>April 27, 1979 (14 years old)<\/b>: <i>Dear diary&#8230;My whole sticker collection is gone. It fell off my desk into the trashcan and I never noticed. I&#8217;ve been collecting stickers for 5 years and they&#8217;re all gone. God, it hurts when you lose something like that. Now I have to start over again.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>HAHAHAHA!<\/p>\n<p>Do you remember forever the things you lose? I had forgotten about those stickers until poking around in one of my old scrapbook\/journals this evening, but there are other items I have lost, sold, misplaced or loaned with no return that I still remember and wish I had back.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The blue notebook full of drawings that Becky and I did in 7th grade\n<\/li>\n<li><i>There Might Have Been Castles<\/i> in paperback, but I can&#8217;t remember now who borrowed it. It was a bad, bad book, I don&#8217;t know why it stuck in my mind. That book is the reason I now write down my books that are out on loan with the borrower&#8217;s name and date (also thus fulfilling my secret desire to be a librarian).\n<\/li>\n<li>The handblown coiled gray glass snake I bought in Venice during a choir trip in high school that broke during a careless vacuuming session years later.\n<\/li>\n<li>The little book that I wrote and illustrated for a 5th grade class assignment that Mrs Brown never gave back to me. I don&#8217;t remember a thing about the plot or the drawings, but I remember being inordinately proud of it, and that the protagonists were a cat and an eagle.\n<\/li>\n<li>My first oil painting of an autumn tree, done when I was 12 or 13 as a Christmas gift for my grandmother. After her death, while cleaning out her house, I took it back and that evening it was stolen out of my car in Chicago, along with a set of matching seagreen placemats and cloth napkins (wtf?)\n<\/li>\n<li>The card table from my grandmother&#8217;s house that was in our storage unit, stupidly abandoned when we moved to Sweden.\n<\/li>\n<li>My favorite stuffed animal, a yellow, white and brown reclining rabbit, that I accidentally left out overnight in the rain when I was a child. It never recovered from its drenching, getting moldy, and had to be thrown away.\n<\/li>\n<li>The entire Trixie Belden and Nancy Drew collections I had as a kid until I stupidly decided around the age of 16 that I was too old for them.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It seems ridiculous that these particular material goods have somehow caught fast with little barbed hooks in my memory. I can&#8217;t seem to shake them loose. I suspect that when I&#8217;m 97 and drooling in my wheelchair, I&#8217;ll be heard mumbling about that bitch Mrs Brown never returning my masterpiece.<\/p>\n<p>What have you lost that you wish you could recover?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 27, 1979 (14 years old): Dear diary&#8230;My whole sticker collection is gone. It fell off my desk into the trashcan and I never noticed. I&#8217;ve been collecting stickers for 5 years and they&#8217;re all gone. God, it hurts when you lose something like that. Now I have to start over again. HAHAHAHA! Do you remember forever the things you lose? I had forgotten about those stickers until poking around in one of my old scrapbook\/journals this evening, but there are other items I have lost, sold, misplaced or loaned with no return that I still remember and wish I&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-thewaywewere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5391,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions\/5391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}