{"id":688,"date":"2006-09-17T21:00:51","date_gmt":"2006-09-17T21:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teeterpod3.com\/?p=688"},"modified":"2013-03-23T20:20:59","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T20:20:59","slug":"no-more-permanent-goodbyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/teeterpod3.com\/?p=688","title":{"rendered":"No more permanent goodbyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"pastedGraphic.pdf\" src=\"webkit-fake-url:\/\/51CF7CA4-7BDC-4544-9D33-C4279B531FDB\/pastedGraphic.pdf\" width=\"302\" height=\"307\" \/>This week we\u2019ll be saying goodbye to yet another family member. We have had enough of that this year, already, thank you very much.<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><!--more-->we said<\/h2>\n<p>We lost another family member last night. My uncle Gord (my Dad\u2019s older brother) passed away last night after heart problems that landed him in the hospital a day or two after we saw him here last Sunday when he was here for my birthday. Our only comfort is knowing that it wasn\u2019t drawn out and painful for him. My parents were keeping us\u00a0 up to date with everything that was happening. And even by Friday it started to sound like things might stabilize. Even with his choice to not have any invasive methods of recovery made, I really thought he might pull through. However Dad got the call yesterday afternoon that things were getting worse and that he had better hurry up and go to the hospital. I can\u2019t imagine what that drive was like for Dad, an hour to think about it \u2013 Gord was his older brother and they were close and I know he looked up to him like I do mine. Dad made it there to be with him a while before he passed on, and for that I am grateful. And too, I am grateful to have had him in my life as a member of my family and someone who played a part in who I am. I know Danielle and he always had a special bond as he was exactly, to the day, 40 years older than her, as they shared the same birthday. And I know Uncle Gord will sorely be missed by more than just this household and our extended family.<\/p>\n<p>So even though we don\u2019t want to do it, we say goodbye to another member of our circle,\u00a0 this week. But, that is it, we\u2019re calling in protest &#8211; we\u2019ve had enough already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we\u2019ll be saying goodbye to yet another family member. We have had enough of that this year, already, thank you very much. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[21,119],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/teeterpod3.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/teeterpod3.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/teeterpod3.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teeterpod3.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teeterpod3.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/teeterpod3.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"http:\/\/teeterpod3.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/teeterpod3.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teeterpod3.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teeterpod3.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}