{"id":7221,"date":"2013-04-30T16:16:14","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T23:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=7221"},"modified":"2013-04-30T16:16:14","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T23:16:14","slug":"a-farewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2013\/04\/a-farewell\/","title":{"rendered":"A Farewell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Great Aunt Susan has died of cancer. There&#8217;s no poetry about that disease. In quiet moments I look for photos so I can say goodbye, or maybe so I can stop saying goodbye. These photos were posted by her best friend Marsha and my cousin Laura on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Susan-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7225\" alt=\"Susan 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Susan-1.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Susan-1.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Susan-1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Susan-1-449x300.jpg 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Susan-and-Laura.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7227\" alt=\"Susan and Laura\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Susan-and-Laura.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Susan-and-Laura.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Susan-and-Laura-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Susan-and-Laura-399x300.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m grateful for my cousin Laura who could be there through her illness and meet Susan&#8217;s needs in a very particular way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Susan-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7229\" alt=\"Susan-001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Susan-001.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Susan-001.jpg 350w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Susan-001-100x100.jpg 100w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Susan-001-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a> When the wildflowers bloom at the Weber, I&#8217;ll remember her. Her parties will always be the standard. I love how she gave commemorative gifts for special occasions. I miss her laugh. She knew how to make people feel special.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Great Aunt Susan has died of cancer. There&#8217;s no poetry about that disease. In quiet moments I look for photos so I can say goodbye, or maybe so I can stop saying goodbye. These photos were posted by her best friend Marsha and my cousin Laura on Facebook. \u00a0 I&#8217;m grateful for my cousin &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2013\/04\/a-farewell\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Farewell<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extended-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7221","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=7221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7231,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7221\/revisions\/7231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}