{"id":1722,"date":"2009-04-16T21:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T02:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/04\/16\/nearly-separated-at-birth\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:41:57","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:41:57","slug":"nearly-separated-at-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/04\/16\/nearly-separated-at-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"NEARLY SEPARATED AT BIRTH?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know the picture of Melissa Then is black-and-white which wasn&#8217;t the best choice for comparison, perhaps, but it was actually the best one I could find, and the one where you can really see the resemblance. She was 9 years old when she first starred in <i>Little House on the Prairie<\/i> and I was 9 years old in the picture below. She was born the same year as I was, only 3 months before me. We had the same color hair, freckles, brown eyes, and big front teeth:<\/p>\n<table cellspacing=3 cellpadding=3>\n<tr>\n<td valign=top align=center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/179472_original.jpg\" width=200 border=0 height=276 title=\"Melissa Then\"  align=\"Middle\"><br \/>Melissa Then<\/td>\n<td valign=top align=center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/178986_original.jpg\" width=200 border=0 height=276 title=\"Lizardek Then\"  align=\"Middle\"><br \/>Lizardek Then<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--more Then it all went horribly, horribly wrong--><\/p>\n<table cellspacing=3 cellpadding=3>\n<tr>\n<td valign=top align=center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/179305_original.jpg\" width=200 border=0 height=276 title=\"Melissa Now\"  align=\"Middle\"><br \/>Melissa Now<\/td>\n<td valign=top align=center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/178791_original.jpg\" width=200 border=0 height=276 title=\"Lizardek Now\"  align=\"Middle\"><br \/>Lizardek Now<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p> We both apparently stay out of the sun, as we&#8217;ve lost the prominent freckles though they are still lurking just beneath the surface. I&#8217;ve never done a thing to my eyebrows or my NOSE, and you can&#8217;t see in these mug shots, but we are both, um, blessed in the torso. She&#8217;s only a little bit taller than me, but she IS married to Bruce Boxleitner. Though I&#8217;m married to Anders, so I WIN! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know the picture of Melissa Then is black-and-white which wasn&#8217;t the best choice for comparison, perhaps, but it was actually the best one I could find, and the one where you can really see the resemblance. She was 9 years old when she first starred in Little House on the Prairie and I was 9 years old in the picture below. She was born the same year as I was, only 3 months before me. We had the same color hair, freckles, brown eyes, and big front teeth: Melissa Then Lizardek Then<\/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":[4,7,16],"class_list":["post-1722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-beinglizardek","tag-obiterphotos","tag-thewaywewere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722","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=1722"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7137,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions\/7137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}