{"id":2010,"date":"2009-06-24T01:52:08","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T01:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jolene-test.com.bishopcompsol.com\/?p=2010"},"modified":"2009-06-24T01:52:08","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T01:52:08","slug":"changes-in-my-hometown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/changes-in-my-hometown\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes in My Hometown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shapeimage_1-23121.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2011\" title=\"shapeimage_1-23\" src=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shapeimage_1-23121-300x171.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shapeimage_1-23121-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shapeimage_1-23121-500x285.png 500w, https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shapeimage_1-23121.png 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Mom and I drove to Le Mars, my hometown, to visit relatives. So much has changed since I graduated from college in 1978. The old post office is now the Community Theater\u2019s headquarters. The old Carnegie library, where I met Lois Lenski, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Cherry Ames, is now the Fine Arts Center. Westmar College is gone, Wells Blue Bunny is a behemoth, but KLEM is still on the air and the Daily Sentinel is still in business.<\/p>\n<p>Beverly Van Buskirk, the lifestyles editor at the Sentinel, interviewed me about my book. We chuckled through the entire interview because we were high school and college classmates, never dreaming we\u2019d both be writers one day. And in a few minutes, we\u2019re going to my aunt\u2019s house, where she and my uncle have lived for nearly 50 years, for coffee with some old neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>The house will be familiar, but visiting with the neighbors as adult to adult will be a bit strange for me. One woman is the mother of a childhood friend of mine. Another is the mother of two kids I used to babysit. Maybe they\u2019ve moved on, but I\u2019m still stuck in those old relationships, and am not sure how to act.<\/p>\n<p>So many things in my hometown have changed. Maybe today, I\u2019ll be the one who changes. Maybe today, I\u2019ll grow up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Mom and I drove to Le Mars, my hometown, to visit relatives. So much has changed since I graduated from college in 1978. The old post office is now the Community Theater\u2019s headquarters. The old Carnegie library, where I met Lois Lenski, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Cherry Ames, is now the Fine Arts Center. 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