{"id":1060,"date":"2011-01-26T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2011-01-26T18:23:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T22:23:00","slug":"memories-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1060","title":{"rendered":"Memories of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/TUCcqqXZAQI\/AAAAAAAACxI\/Q_04RTW3anE\/s1600\/LeeNov102010.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/TUCcqqXZAQI\/AAAAAAAACxI\/Q_04RTW3anE\/s320\/LeeNov102010.jpg?resize=305%2C320\" width=\"305\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be breaking for a bit, as my family and I gather to celebrate the joy of a rich and wonderful life, my lovely Aunt Lee.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/bootedharleydude.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/light-of-my-life-enjoys-her-96th.html\">She celebrated her 96th birthday<\/a> just a few weeks ago, with cake, ice cream, noisemakers, and recognition from our State General Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>She passed away today, and I was by her side, holding her hand.&nbsp; Our last words were, &#8220;I love you.&#8221;&nbsp; I&#8217;m at peace. <\/p>\n<p>Through the years, we&#8217;ve been close, but I have to say in the last five years since her husband&#8217;s passing, we&#8217;ve been even closer.<\/p>\n<p>When my Uncle Charlie died in 2005, our last words were a promise, &#8220;I&#8217;ll take care of your wife.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That I did&#8230; and it was a joy to do.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/TUCeZGsLl4I\/AAAAAAAACxM\/iG5RvJkCS5s\/s1600\/Birthday201101.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/TUCeZGsLl4I\/AAAAAAAACxM\/iG5RvJkCS5s\/s320\/Birthday201101.jpg?resize=320%2C315\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be breaking for a bit, as my family and I gather to celebrate the joy of a rich and wonderful life, my lovely Aunt Lee.&nbsp; She celebrated her 96th birthday just a few weeks ago, with cake, ice cream, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1060\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}