{"id":25611,"date":"2026-11-08T13:37:26","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T13:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=25611"},"modified":"2026-11-08T13:37:26","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T13:37:26","slug":"a-deputy-made-my-71-year-old-mother-stand-in-91-degree-heat-for-40-minutes-then-she-asked-him-to-say-her-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=25611","title":{"rendered":"A Deputy Made My 71-Year-Old Mother Stand in 91-Degree Heat for 40 Minutes Then She Asked Him to Say Her Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDid you print this at the library, hon?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The deputy held my mother\u2019s license up to the sun and laughed. She stood silently beside her Buick, handbag on her arm, while I waited in the passenger seat with lemon bars on my lap.<\/p>\n<p>It was ninety-one degrees on County Road 6 in Minnesota, with cornfields on both sides and no shade.<\/p>\n<p>Mom drove forty-eight in a fifty-five and used her blinker leaving an empty driveway. The road\u2019s center stripe hadn\u2019t been repainted since July, yet the deputy never explained why he\u2019d stopped her.<\/p>\n<p>He looked barely old enough to drive.<\/p>\n<p>I later learned he was twenty-four\u2014and had worn that badge for just eleven days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDid you print this at the library, hon?\u201d The deputy held my mother\u2019s license up to the sun and laughed. She stood silently beside her Buick, handbag on her arm, while I waited in the passenger seat with lemon bars on my lap. It was ninety-one degrees on County Road 6 in Minnesota, with cornfields &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25613,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25611\/revisions\/25613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}