{"id":975,"date":"2018-04-23T02:02:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T02:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/?p=975"},"modified":"2025-08-26T02:13:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T02:13:45","slug":"grandma-rueds-worse-verse-1971","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/2018\/04\/23\/grandma-rueds-worse-verse-1971\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandma Rued&#8217;s Worse Verse (1971)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Baldwin contribution:<a href=\"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/2018\/04\/23\/grandma-rueds-worse-verse-1971\/29744696_10215774419217436_4831739459915710412_o\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-976\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-976\" src=\"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/29744696_10215774419217436_4831739459915710412_o-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" 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src=\"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/29744863_10215774417817401_7981291296441701153_o-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/29744863_10215774417817401_7981291296441701153_o-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/29744863_10215774417817401_7981291296441701153_o-768x559.jpg 768w, https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/29744863_10215774417817401_7981291296441701153_o.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/2018\/04\/23\/grandma-rueds-worse-verse-1971\/29750003_10215774418137409_7348232928257655208_o\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-978\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-978\" src=\"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/29750003_10215774418137409_7348232928257655208_o-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/29750003_10215774418137409_7348232928257655208_o-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/29750003_10215774418137409_7348232928257655208_o.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/2018\/04\/23\/grandma-rueds-worse-verse-1971\/29871727_10215774418937429_1866512627191602487_o\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-979\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-979\" src=\"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/29871727_10215774418937429_1866512627191602487_o-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/29871727_10215774418937429_1866512627191602487_o-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/29871727_10215774418937429_1866512627191602487_o.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/2018\/04\/23\/grandma-rueds-worse-verse-1971\/29872097_10215774418697423_2946991082741975229_o\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-980\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-980\" src=\"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/29872097_10215774418697423_2946991082741975229_o-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/29872097_10215774418697423_2946991082741975229_o-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/29872097_10215774418697423_2946991082741975229_o.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/2018\/04\/23\/grandma-rueds-worse-verse-1971\/29983161_10215774418577420_5179280114972406876_o\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-981\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-981\" src=\"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/29983161_10215774418577420_5179280114972406876_o-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/29983161_10215774418577420_5179280114972406876_o-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/29983161_10215774418577420_5179280114972406876_o.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My Mom has a signed copy of Marion&#8217;s poetry book. She was our neighbor when we lived on Eagle Lake Road (in the 1970s). She lived in a large old scary looking house on a heavily wooded\/overgrown lot&#8230;which was located about where the new high school driveway is now (entry off Eagle Lake rd).<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, I don&#8217;t recall ever meeting her, but my Mom says I must have. I did know of her and seen her in her garden, I would have been elementary school age when we lived on Eagle Lake Rd, I was always scared of that big house on the wooded lot and the old lady that lived there&#8230;Which is truly a shame&#8230;Because from reading her book today, I am certain she was a person I would have loved to know.<\/p>\n<p>The hand written inscription is tough to read, but it says, &#8220;in Memory of 24 years and more.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Baldwin contribution: My Mom has a signed copy of Marion&#8217;s poetry book. She was our neighbor when we lived on Eagle Lake Road (in the 1970s). She lived in a large old scary looking house on a heavily wooded\/overgrown lot&#8230;which was located about where the new high school driveway is now (entry off Eagle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":983,"href":"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions\/983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}