{"id":3140,"date":"2007-11-17T11:51:04","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T17:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=3140"},"modified":"2013-06-11T07:36:29","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T13:36:29","slug":"wear-that-red-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wear-that-red-dress\/","title":{"rendered":"Wear that red dress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=4516989\">StoryCorps<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Danielle<\/strong> and <strong>Gabrielle Hall<\/strong> came to StoryCorps in San Francisco to remember their mother <strong>Martha<\/strong>, who died of breast cancer in 2003 after fighting the disease for 14 years&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;Mom was amazing,&#8221; Gabrielle Hall said.<br \/>\nDanielle added, &#8220;She was determined and strong and intense and good at everything she did more than anybody else&#8217;s mom that I knew.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;She&#8217;s still better than everybody else&#8217;s mom we know,&#8221; Gabrielle said. The sisters laughed at the thought.<br \/>\nDanielle remembered the time that her mother sent her a poem. It said, &#8220;If you&#8217;re having a bad day, bake a cake. And if it&#8217;s still bad, put on a red dress.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/hall_family465.jpg' title='hall_family465.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/hall_family465.jpg' alt='hall_family465.jpg' width=400\/><\/a><br \/>\nWhile wearing her new red shoes to her chemo treatment, their mother Martha said, &#8220;You can&#8217;t have a bad day if you&#8217;re wearing red shoes.&#8221; Sounds like someone who definitely made the most of her situation.<br \/>\nWhat is it that always cheers you up? What is it that gets you through the rough days and prepares you to face your lion?<br \/>\nWell <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/podcastdownload.npr.org\/anon.npr-podcasts\/podcast\/510200\/16382215\/npr_16382215.mp3\">worth a listen<\/span> &#8211; especially right before Thanksgiving<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From StoryCorps: Danielle and Gabrielle Hall came to StoryCorps in San Francisco to remember their mother Martha, who died of breast cancer in 2003 after fighting the disease for 14 years&#8230; &#8220;Mom was amazing,&#8221; Gabrielle Hall said. Danielle added, &#8220;She was determined and strong and intense and good at everything she did more than anybody &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wear-that-red-dress\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wear that red dress<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[381,382,177,74,99],"class_list":["post-3140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-cancer","tag-face-the-lion","tag-interviews","tag-npr","tag-storycorps"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-OE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10950,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions\/10950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}