{"id":2928,"date":"2010-01-19T16:33:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T22:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.JFanjoy.com\/blog\/?p=2928"},"modified":"2010-01-19T16:33:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T22:33:53","slug":"tough-granny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/tough-granny\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough granny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all heard stories about how our grandparents walked miles to school in the driving snow, uphill both ways. Sometimes we even doubt the veracity of these claims. But I am here to tell you, the grandparents of the Maya really <em>are<\/em> tough. I was washing the dishes this afternoon in the neigbors&#8217; basin, and the <em>chikay<\/em> (literally, &#8220;grandma&#8221;) came hobbling out of the house. She is wrinkled, uses a cane, can hardly see, and is probably three hundred years old. But she&#8217;s really nice and speaks amazingly good Spanish (a rarety in her generation), so I often exchange pleasantries with her.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.JFanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/chikaySM.jpg\" target=\"photo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.JFanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/chikaySM1.jpg\" width=\"266\" height=\"354\" alt=\"chikaySM.jpg\" class=\"main_img_right\" \/><\/a>&#8220;How are you today, <em>chikay<\/em>?&#8221; I asked her. She responded by gargling up a huge flegmy glop and hacking it into the basin, blood oozing everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mmmm, not too good,&#8221; she replied cheerfully as she blindly groped to find the bowl they use to dip water. Slightly aghast, I passed it to her. &#8220;My molar was killing me, so I yanked it out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Um, who yanked it out?&#8221; I asked, unsure my Spanish was working correctly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I did!&#8221; she said, spitting out more blood. &#8220;It has been hurting for days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I regained my composure, and remembered that we have horse-pills of acetometaphine in the house, so I offered to fetch her some. She seemed pleased at the idea, so I got her two 500mg tablets.<\/p>\n<p>There you have it. Did your grandma ever do THAT?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all heard stories about how our grandparents walked miles to school in the driving snow, uphill both ways. Sometimes we even doubt the veracity of these claims. But I am here to tell you, the grandparents of the Maya really are tough. I was washing the dishes this afternoon in the neigbors&#8217; basin, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jims-guatemala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}