{"id":23748,"date":"2016-01-21T00:01:45","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T08:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=23748"},"modified":"2016-01-21T00:01:45","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T08:01:45","slug":"im-going-to-be-a-grandmother-or-will-i-be-a-grannie-a-grandma-a-nana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/im-going-to-be-a-grandmother-or-will-i-be-a-grannie-a-grandma-a-nana\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m Going to Be a Grandmother — Or Will I Be a Grannie? A Grandma? A Nana?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"My<\/a>
My father’s mother, born in 1876, was known as Grandma Falconer. Here she is with up-do, pearls and 19th century pince-nez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"My<\/a>
My mother’s mother, born twenty years later and glamorous, went in for furs, lipstick and sassy headgear. Everyone in Pentwater, Michigan, called her Toto. Photo by DB Falconer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/em><\/p>\n

Help! My son Peter\u00a0and his wife are about to transform Jon and me into grandparents.<\/p>\n

What shall I call myself? Something tried and true like\u00a0Grandma, Grannie, Nana, or Grandmother Newhall? Or should I revive one of my childhood nicknames — Bobbie or Fanny? Or just call myself B, which is how I sign\u00a0my emails these days?<\/p>\n

And — how do I work around the preferences of the other grandmothers(s), present and future, in the family?<\/p>\n

Email me your stories and suggestions or put them in the comment box, and I’ll write up a post next week — unless, of course, grandbaby Newhall gets born between now and then, in which case all bets are off.<\/p>\n

\"1943<\/a>
That’s me with my great-grandmother, who was known to one and all as Nana. Can I follow in her footsteps? Photo by DB Falconer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"1943<\/a><\/p>\n

What shall I call myself? Something tried and true like\u00a0Grandma, Grannie, Nana, or Grandmother Newhall? Or should I revive one of my childhood nicknames — Bobbie or Fanny? Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[34,1284,497,508,1624,1625,82,504,1626],"class_list":["post-23748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-changing-family","tag-dont-miss","tag-falconers","tag-grandmother","tag-grandparents","tag-names","tag-nana","tag-on-the-funny-side","tag-pentwater","tag-toto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}