{"id":69,"date":"2016-01-05T01:04:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T01:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ettamaud.com\/?p=69"},"modified":"2016-01-24T20:04:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T20:04:20","slug":"who-is-etta-maud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ettamaud.com\/?p=69","title":{"rendered":"Who is Etta Maud?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ettamaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/thumb200-copy.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-70\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ettamaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/thumb200-copy.jpg?resize=200%2C269\" alt=\"Etta F Maud\" width=\"200\" height=\"269\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The easiest answer is that Etta Maud represents my grandmother\u00a0on my maternal side. Her name is\u00a0really Etta Florence Maude Magee McKibbin, and she remains an enigma because I was born too late to meet her. \u00a0She died at age 61 when my mother was 23.<\/p>\n<p>Etta was the youngest of 13 children, born in 1882 to Isabella Crawford and Hugh Magee, and was raised primarily by Isabella, a smart, strong pioneer who won a divorce from our great-grandfather in 1883. \u00a0The reason for the split is unknown, in part perhaps because of the shame associated with a <a href=\"http:\/\/bc.canadagenweb.org\/vic_divorce\/vic_div1.htm\" target=\"_blank\">divorce<\/a>, even though there must have been just cause as Isabella filed shortly after giving birth to Etta\u00a0while\u00a0my great-grandfather had means. \u00a0He is recognized as a founding settler\u00a0in Vancouver, and his and\/or his\u00a0son&#8217;s name James Douglas Magee, graces a high school and street. \u00a0Etta&#8217;s brother James&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historicplaces.ca\/en\/rep-reg\/place-lieu.aspx?id=10828\" target=\"_blank\">house<\/a> is listed in the Canadian Register.<\/p>\n<p>Through my mother, I have always felt the\u00a0presence of Etta Maud as light and love. \u00a0What she passed down to my mother was gentleness, a sense of wit and humor, and an open heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The easiest answer is that Etta Maud represents my grandmother\u00a0on my maternal side. Her name is\u00a0really Etta Florence Maude Magee McKibbin, and she remains an enigma because I was born too late to meet her. \u00a0She died at age 61<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,10,11,13,14],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-beginnings","tag-etta-maud","tag-grandmother","tag-resilience","tag-single-mother"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ettamaud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ettamaud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ettamaud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ettamaud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ettamaud.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ettamaud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/www.ettamaud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ettamaud.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ettamaud.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ettamaud.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}