{"id":2658,"date":"2012-07-30T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/?p=2658"},"modified":"2012-07-29T23:50:26","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T03:50:26","slug":"happy-birthday-rand-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/happy-birthday-rand-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Rand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today would have been Rand&#8217;s 45th birthday. He was born in 1967; ten years before me and one year after my sister. Also just 10 days before Love&#8217;s brother. Funny how things connect like that sometimes. We lost him far too soon on March 13, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, as the date drew closer, I started thinking about him a lot. Sometimes sad, sometimes funny. Two years gone is in so many ways a mere blink of an eye, and yet in others, it seems so long ago. Sometimes I think of things he would have liked or things I&#8217;m sad he missed, or things I know he would have been part of. That&#8217;s always the worst part of grief; the sad remembrance that life just moves on without your lost loved ones. Those moments that never will be ever again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/holland.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/holland.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"holland\" width=\"414\" height=\"314\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/holland.jpg 414w, https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/holland-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><center>Gone too soon, but not forgotten. Happy Birthday my friend.<\/p>\n<p>July 30, 1967 &#8211; March 13, 2010<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today would have been Rand&#8217;s 45th birthday. He was born in 1967; ten years before me and one year after my sister. Also just 10 days before Love&#8217;s brother. Funny how things connect like that sometimes. We lost him far too soon on March 13, 2010. Of course, as the date drew closer, I started&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[1259,1258,740,737],"class_list":["post-2658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-grief","tag-birthday-memorial","tag-happy-birthday","tag-memorial","tag-rand"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2658"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2662,"href":"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions\/2662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}