{"id":2390,"date":"2011-03-07T10:28:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T18:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/?p=2390"},"modified":"2011-11-16T09:51:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T17:51:20","slug":"let-it-b-alice-b-toklas-1877-1967","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/07\/let-it-b-alice-b-toklas-1877-1967\/","title":{"rendered":"Let It &#039;B&#039;: Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year on this date, the anniversary of Alice&#8217;s death, I posted a blog emphasizing the importance of Alice&#8217;s middle initial. \u00a0If \u00a0you&#8217;d like to revisit it, just go to March 2010 in the Archives.<\/p>\n<p>This year, thought, I would like to keep it brief and simple with a tribute collage I once made. On this date it honors the woman who helped Gertrude Stein be Gertrude Stein. \u00a0The photo is followed by one of the hundreds of love notes Gertrude sent to Alice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/FLAIR1-copy-14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2401\" title=\"FLAIR1 copy 1\" src=\"http:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/FLAIR1-copy-14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"457\" height=\"638\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Baby looked so pretty with a big hat on<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>lovely black hair,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Baby looked so pretty with no hat on<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>lovely black hair,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Baby looks so pretty with its little head<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>and its lovely black hair sleeping sweetly<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>on its hard pillow,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Baby looks so lovely, precious baby, baby<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>looks so lovely precious precious baby<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/rose810.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2403\" title=\"rose810\" src=\"http:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/rose810-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year on this date, the anniversary of Alice&#8217;s death, I posted a blog emphasizing the importance of Alice&#8217;s middle initial. \u00a0If \u00a0you&#8217;d like to revisit it, just go to March 2010 in the Archives. This year, thought, I would like to keep it brief and simple with a tribute collage I once made. On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,89],"class_list":["post-2390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historic-facts","tag-alice-b-toklas","tag-gertrude-stein"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2390"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3503,"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions\/3503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}