{"id":506,"date":"2008-09-23T19:47:43","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T23:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/?p=506"},"modified":"2008-09-23T20:10:39","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T00:10:39","slug":"great-sendoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/?p=506","title":{"rendered":"Great Sendoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just returned from Cleveland where we gave Grandpa a nice sendoff.  It was full of close friends and family, shots of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internetwines.com\/mb150744.html\" TARGET = \"_blank\">Leroux blackberry brandy<\/a> and shared memories.  <\/p>\n<p>Dad painted a nice picture of Grandpa&#8217;s character through a few stories, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lindaslyrics.com\/\" TARGET = \"_blank\">Linda Ellis&#8217;<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pryor.com\/mkt_info\/products\/dashpoem.asp\" TARGET = \"_blank\">&#8220;The Dash&#8221;<\/a> was recited and while Cherie disagrees, one of the Brickman Brothers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webfh.com\/fh\/aboutus\/staff_member.cfm?stf_id=1297&#038;fh_id=10631\" TARGET = \"_blank\">funeral guys<\/a> looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0164873\/\" TARGET = \"_blank\">Lenny Clarke<\/a>. You be the judge.  Lunch at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariofazios.com\/\" TARGET = \"_blank\">Mario Fazio&#8217;s<\/a> was tasty too.  <\/p>\n<p>The best part was seeing all my cousins, aunts and uncles.  Some I haven&#8217;t seen in over 10 years.  I wish there was more time to spend with them.  We need to come up with a way to get together under less time constrained circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, it was a simple and peaceful sendoff.  Grandpa would have wanted it that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just returned from Cleveland where we gave Grandpa a nice sendoff. It was full of close friends and family, shots of Leroux blackberry brandy and shared memories. Dad painted a nice picture of Grandpa&#8217;s character through a few stories, Linda Ellis&#8217; &#8220;The Dash&#8221; was recited and while Cherie disagrees, one of the Brickman Brothers funeral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521,"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}