{"id":55,"date":"2008-01-24T02:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T02:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/01\/floating-heads.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T02:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T02:07:00","slug":"floating-heads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/01\/floating-heads\/","title":{"rendered":"Floating Heads"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\" Dave said I should talk about this one. The boys and I were looking at the scrapbook my Mom made for my 30th birthday (it’s really really awesome — covers through age 8!), and Dave comes across this portrait. It was taken in summer 1981, so I was 7.<\/p>\n

“Who’s that little boy in the upper right corner?”<\/div>\n

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I replied, “That’s my sister, silly*!”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
*I might have said something more severe than “silly”, I can’t remember.<\/div>\n

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Who remembers these kinds of pictures? I think they were all the rage in the 80s. Aren’t they the most ridiculous thing??? I’m sure the Sears Portrait Studio was showing off this incredible technological breakthrough: take two separate portraits, and merge them into one! WOW!<\/div>\n

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To put it in perspective, this is what my sister looked like when she isn’t a floating head in my thoughts. She was about 2 1\/2 here:<\/div>\n

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Dave said I should talk about this one. The boys and I were looking at the scrapbook my Mom made for my 30th birthday (it’s really really awesome — covers through age 8!), and Dave comes across this portrait. It was taken in summer 1981, so I was 7. “Who’s that little boy in the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[34,616],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-origins","tag-ranting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t