{"id":13377,"date":"2012-05-07T17:23:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T22:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/?p=13377"},"modified":"2017-01-06T19:02:11","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T01:02:11","slug":"thomas-1994-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=13377","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, Thomas (1994-2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Thomas-obit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13378\" title=\"Thomas-obit\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Thomas-obit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Thomas-obit.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Thomas-obit-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thomas died just a few minutes before 5 p.m. If you missed it, <a title=\"No one will really notice except me, but a good friend of mine is dying\" href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/?p=13331\" target=\"_blank\">I wrote about his health situation<\/a> this morning. After I made a <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/41720043\" target=\"_blank\">short video that I posted around noon<\/a>, I put him down to rest in a place where I knew he enjoyed lying. He stayed there all afternoon and never got up again. He was 18 years old. I&#8217;ll miss him.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never cried about the death of a human, but I cry each time I lose one of my furry friends. It&#8217;s the price we pay for enjoying the years we have with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas died just a few minutes before 5 p.m. If you missed it, I wrote about his health situation this morning. After I made a short video that I posted around noon, I put him down to rest in a place where I knew he enjoyed lying. He stayed there all afternoon and never got <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=13377\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-3tL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13377"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22073,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13377\/revisions\/22073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}