{"id":1833,"date":"2019-02-19T21:34:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T02:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:03:50","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:03:50","slug":"50365-moms-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/50365-moms-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"50:365 | Mom&#8217;s Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found out tonight that <a href=\"https:\/\/madison.com\/news\/local\/obituaries\/goeres-mary-jean\/article_20e34213-1bb3-52cb-a77f-11aeb4e401fc.html\">my mom&#8217;s close friend, Mary Jean Goeres, died this week<\/a>. Mary Jean and her husband raised their kids at the same time my parents were raising their\u00a0&#8220;first&#8221; kids, and then they traveled with my mom and dad through the 1990s and early 2000s. This picture includes my mom and dad [front row] with Ted and Mary Jean Goeres [back row] and Frank and Shirley Groves [middle row] on a\u00a0rafting\u00a0trip on the Mendenhall River in Alaska on May 31, 1994. Check out mom&#8217;s face!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1834 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Norma-and-George-Rafting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"5916\" height=\"4691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Norma-and-George-Rafting.jpg 5916w, https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Norma-and-George-Rafting-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Norma-and-George-Rafting-768x609.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Norma-and-George-Rafting-1024x812.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 5916px) 100vw, 5916px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mary Jean and Ted&#8217;s travel companions have long since passed away, but today was a reminder of the passing of an era. My condolences to the Goeres family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found out tonight that my mom&#8217;s close friend, Mary Jean Goeres, died this week. Mary Jean and her husband raised their kids at the same time my parents were raising their\u00a0&#8220;first&#8221; kids, and then they traveled with my mom and dad through the 1990s and early 2000s. This picture includes my mom and dad&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1837,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions\/1837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}