{"id":549,"date":"2013-02-22T14:52:53","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T21:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=549"},"modified":"2013-02-22T14:52:53","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T21:52:53","slug":"first-ladies-and-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/22\/first-ladies-and-friendship\/","title":{"rendered":"First Ladies and Friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[\n\n<p>Road to California and Eleanor Burns\u2019 lecture, <a title=\"Positively Presidential Quilting\" href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/positively-presidential-quilting\/\">\u201c<i>Tales of First Ladies<\/i>,\u201d <\/a>was the means for bringing together two old friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p><b>Forty Seven years ago, <\/b>Katherine<b> <\/b>Fletcher<b> <\/b>was a student<b> <\/b>in biology teacher, Sister Judith Wemmer\u2019s homeroom at San Diego Rosary High School. After Katherine&#8217;s graduation, the two women stayed in touch as best as they could. \u00a0Katherine is a quilter and has attended Road for several years along with her mother and another friend. Katherine\u2019s mom recently passed away and not wanting to attend Road this year by herself, Katherine thought to invite her old teacher to come to the show. Road was the perfect meeting place as Katherine currently resides in Redding in northern California and Judith still lives in southern California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Judith, who is now 86 years old,\u00a0didn&#8217;t\u00a0have any problems driving in the rain to meet her old student. They spent the day walking around the exhibits, having lunch, and going to the lecture. With an interest in U.S. History, Judith had looked forward to hearing about all the first ladies and\u00a0didn&#8217;t\u00a0expect how entertaining the lecture turned out to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>So how did their day turn out?\u00a0 The two women got caught up with their friendship, Katherine was able to purchase some unique quilting tools,\u00a0and Judith appreciated Kathy helping her learn more about the process and value of quilting.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/first-ladies-and-friendship\/attachment\/friends\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-550\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-550\" alt=\"friends\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/friends.jpg\" width=\"924\" height=\"966\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Quilting, friendship, and Road to California \u2013 a wonderful combination.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,22,26,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classes","category-blog","category-road-2013","category-road-to-california"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}