{"id":39959,"date":"2023-11-04T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T07:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=39959"},"modified":"2026-06-06T05:39:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T05:39:48","slug":"sibling-loyalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/sibling-loyalty\/","title":{"rendered":"Sibling Loyalty: My Brother Has a Sister. And I&#8217;ve Got a Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_39971\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39971\" style=\"width: 773px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/2023\/11\/04\/sibling-loyalty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2023\/11\/04\/sibling-loyalty\/ noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-39971 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1941-Barbara-DG-Falconer-bare-2.webp\" alt=\"sibling-loyalty 1942-baby-and-sibling\" width=\"773\" height=\"435\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sibling loyalty: The author in the summer of 1942 with her big brother, who was cute. <em>Photo by David B. Falconer<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The day I was born, the story goes, my brother, still a toddler, strutted up and down our street in Flint, Michigan, chanting, &#8220;I&#8217;ve got a sister! I&#8217;ve got a sister!&#8221;<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Sibling Loyalty<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>He&#8217;s still got me. And I&#8217;ve still got him. And yesterday having that brother meant getting up from my desk in the middle of a writing day, driving to a hospital, and keeping my brother company as he recovered from the dratted knee surgery so many of our agemates have signed up for lately. I had a fun time. I hope he did.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, I&#8217;ve been sorting through a box of old black and white photos this week. They were taken right around the time my brother announced my arrival to the world.<\/p>\n<p>My brother was a cute baby, I discovered as I perused those photos. Me, not so cute. I scowled a lot.<\/p>\n<p><em>More about the art of the family photo at <a href=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/2020\/12\/12\/happy-family-photo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;The Truth Behind That Happy Family Photo We Just Sent You.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0 More baby pictures at <a href=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/2015\/10\/29\/the-center-of-the-universe-lives-at-our-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;The Center of the Universe Lives at Our House.&#8221;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39972\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39972\" style=\"width: 619px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/2023\/11\/04\/sibling-loyalty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2023\/11\/04\/sibling-loyalty\/ noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-39972 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1942-D.G.-Barbara-Falconer-Camp-Morrison-2.webp\" alt=\"sibling-loyalty scowling-baby\" width=\"619\" height=\"348\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39972\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author the following winter with her big brother, still cute. <em>Photo by Catherine D. Falconer<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/2023\/11\/04\/sibling-loyalty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2023\/11\/04\/sibling-loyalty\/ noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-39972 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1942-D.G.-Barbara-Falconer-Camp-Morrison-2.jpg\" alt=\"sibling-loyalty  scowling-baby\" width=\"619\" height=\"348\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sibling loyalty. Sometimes it means you can ignore your writing deadline and have a fun visit with your brother who just had knee surgery.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/2023\/11\/04\/sibling-loyalty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1145,2782,1284,2783,2784,82,2785,1242],"class_list":["post-39959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-changing-family","tag-1940s","tag-cute-babies","tag-falconers","tag-knee-surgery","tag-my-siblings","tag-on-the-funny-side","tag-sibling-loyalty","tag-siblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39959"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49016,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39959\/revisions\/49016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}