{"id":402,"date":"2013-04-01T09:23:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T13:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicolevanputten.com\/?p=402"},"modified":"2013-04-03T11:47:04","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T15:47:04","slug":"april-1-1929","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicolevanputten.com\/2013\/04\/01\/april-1-1929\/","title":{"rendered":"April 1, 1929"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is not my favorite day. I prefer things black and white and straightforward. I don&#8217;t like the gray areas that April Fools&#8217; Day brings with it. Thankfully, April 1st was always more than a prankster holiday in my world because it was also Papa&#8217;s birthday.\u00a0Papa (Carl) was my Mom&#8217;s Dad and even though he was as gruff and tough as any man on Earth he was MY Grandfather and God damn it, I miss him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicolevanputten.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/B0000159-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-403\" alt=\"B0000159 copy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nicolevanputten.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/B0000159-copy-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nicolevanputten.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/B0000159-copy-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.nicolevanputten.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/B0000159-copy-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.nicolevanputten.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/B0000159-copy.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Papa would have been 84 today. Yesterday, we would have had ring bologna and hunks of cheese before dinner, roast beef and mashed potatoes for dinner (the vegetables, he gave up for Lent, an excuse he used year round) and my Mom&#8217;s homemade lemon\u00a0meringue pie for dessert. Today Mr. MVP and I would have brought him ice cream from the <a title=\"Dairy Store\" href=\"http:\/\/dairystore.msu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dairy Store<\/a>\u00a0and watched a <a title=\"John Wayne\" href=\"http:\/\/johnwayne.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Wayne<\/a>\u00a0movie with him. Jesus Christ, this sucks.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. MVP and I went and visited my grandparents&#8217; grave yesterday to say hello and happy birthday. I was thinking about how much I miss hearing Papa sing <a title=\"Put Another Nickel In\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-gUNZAmFfKA\" target=\"_blank\">Put Another\u00a0Nickel\u00a0In<\/a>\u00a0when I walked in the room or his grumbly &#8220;hey kid&#8221; when he needed something. I learned very early from him that the best section of the newspaper was the &#8220;educational section&#8221; (the comics), chocolate chip cookies needed to be protected and eaten quickly, and solitaire was a game to be played as often as humanly possible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicolevanputten.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_5092.new_.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-405\" alt=\"IMG_5092.new\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nicolevanputten.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_5092.new_-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nicolevanputten.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_5092.new_-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nicolevanputten.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_5092.new_-1024x764.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nicolevanputten.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_5092.new_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Each of my grandparents left their mark on my world and I miss all of them like crazy, but today I&#8217;m going to think about Papa. I&#8217;m going to channel some of his stubborn Marine sensibilities, grumble about local laws, scare some neighborhood teenagers and spend some time with <a title=\"The Good, The Bad and The Ugly\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0060196\/\">Clint Eastwood<\/a>. 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Yesterday, we would have had ring bologna and hunks of cheese before dinner, roast beef and mashed potatoes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>April 1, 1929 - Nicole VanPutten<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nicolevanputten.com\/2013\/04\/01\/april-1-1929\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"April 1, 1929 - Nicole VanPutten\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today is not my favorite day. 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