{"id":18736,"date":"2010-05-08T20:04:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T04:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=18736"},"modified":"2010-05-08T20:14:51","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T04:14:51","slug":"mothers-day-without-a-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=18736","title":{"rendered":"Mother’s Day Without A Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"

On his radio show May 7, 2010, Dennis Prager said<\/a> it was eery to contemplate mother’s day without a mother. “I feel like I have nothing to do.”<\/p>\n

“My mother got a lot of pleasure from me. I have to say. Allen [Estrin] is nodding. Why wouldn’t she? I was a good son. I’m fun. I’m even somewhat famous, which brought her immense pleasure, I have to admit. I’d call her up before I’d go on national TV. It was like a ritual. I’d say, ‘Ma, I’ll be on CNN in five minutes.’ Or, ‘I’ll be on Fox’, or I’ll be on whatever. She just went nuts. She went crazy. She loved it. Till the end of her life.<\/p>\n

“I’ve literally given over 2,000 lectures. To the end, she would ask, where are you? Because I’m always on the road. I’d say wherever I am. What are you doing? I gave a speech. The next question — did they applaud? Till the last day, she was just tickled pink that they applauded her son. I would always answer, ‘No, they booed, ma.’ We had these rituals. I don’t think she ever heard me.<\/p>\n

“I moved out of my parent’s house at 21 and [every conversation] she would always ask me if I needed anything. That too became a joke in our lives. She meant it seriously. And I’d say, ‘Yeah, ma, I need cue tips.’ But she never sent them. I don’t think she heard me.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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