{"id":33793,"date":"2026-08-15T02:41:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T06:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=33793"},"modified":"2026-08-15T02:50:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T06:50:55","slug":"goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=33793","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/dawngrainy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"494\" height=\"393\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/dawngrainy.jpg 494w, https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/dawngrainy-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Goodbye to my amazing wife of very nearly 30 years. The person who worried about me mowing the lawn in the NC heat. The person who liked my apple pie. The person who filled our closets with dresses and shoes. The person who made it fun to be me. The only other person who knew the now-useless encyclopedia of inside jokes and references we collected together. The person who decorated and designed this suddenly-too-big house. The person who has been with me more than half my now-hollow life. My plus-one. My far-better half. My emergency contact. My beneficiary. My shared account-holder. My sunshine, my only sunshine. My beautiful friend. My best friend. My reason. My everything.<\/p>\n<p>Fuck pancreatic cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goodbye to my amazing wife of very nearly 30 years. The person who worried about me mowing the lawn in the NC heat. The person who liked my apple pie. The person who filled our closets with dresses and shoes. The person who made it fun to be me. The only other person who knew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33793"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33798,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33793\/revisions\/33798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}