{"id":3165,"date":"2018-07-11T20:32:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T03:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3165"},"modified":"2018-07-12T18:27:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T01:27:43","slug":"end-of-an-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2018\/07\/11\/end-of-an-era\/","title":{"rendered":"End Of An Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I never heard my grandfather say a cross word to my grandmother. They never had an argument. Love and devotion from another era.<\/p>\n<p>She started fading and could not take care of herself; he was there.<\/p>\n<p>She stopped recognizing him; he wouldn\u2019t leave her side.<\/p>\n<p>She needed more care than he could give so she moved into a facility; he moved in to be with her.<\/p>\n<p>She faded from his sight after 63 years and 37 days of wedded bliss. I watched him cry for the first time that day.<\/p>\n<p>I buried my grandfather and grandmother on the same day.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor NT Franklin<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never heard my grandfather say a cross word to my grandmother. They never had an argument. Love and devotion from another era. She started fading and could not take care of herself; he was there. She stopped recognizing him; he wouldn\u2019t leave her side. She needed more care than he could give so she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[981,4382,7083,1998,3325,7081,1015,6946,1476,1549,41,600,5484,7082,4838,5165],"class_list":["post-3165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-argument","tag-bliss","tag-care","tag-cry","tag-day","tag-devotion","tag-era","tag-facility","tag-grandfather","tag-grandmother","tag-guest-contributor","tag-love","tag-nt-franklin","tag-side","tag-sight","tag-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3166,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165\/revisions\/3166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}