{"id":18264,"date":"2020-05-29T13:12:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T19:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=18264"},"modified":"2020-05-29T16:51:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T22:51:18","slug":"goodbye-judy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/goodbye-judy\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, Judy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"382\" height=\"332\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/5eceb09c58f42-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18265\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/5eceb09c58f42-1.png 382w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/5eceb09c58f42-1-300x261.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 382px) 100vw, 382px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today is the private burial service for my friend and neighbor Judy. Grief turns on the whole spectrum of emotions: anger, sadness, disappointment, and even happiness. I feel anger because I couldn&#8217;t say goodbye and because of some other things. The sadness comes when I look out my kitchen window and see her house.  It&#8217;s been months since I could check on her from my window to see that she was eating a little dinner, and I still miss that. Her house is full of strange new shadows and happenings. I am disappointed not to be playing violin at her funeral, <em>Brightly Beams Our Father&#8217;s Mercy,<\/em> like she asked, or preparing a salad for a family luncheon. The happiness is in knowing she is at peace, and I know she is back to work, smiling, teaching, and living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the private burial service for my friend and neighbor Judy. Grief turns on the whole spectrum of emotions: anger, sadness, disappointment, and even happiness. I feel anger because I couldn&#8217;t say goodbye and because of some other things. The sadness comes when I look out my kitchen window and see her house. It&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/goodbye-judy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Goodbye, Judy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extended-family","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18264"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18273,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18264\/revisions\/18273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}