{"id":2782,"date":"2021-12-15T10:57:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T14:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=2782"},"modified":"2021-12-15T10:57:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T14:57:09","slug":"my-grandmother-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=2782","title":{"rendered":"My grandmother passed away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, my last surviving grandparent died on Monday. She had been suffering with dementia.<\/p>\n<p>Her brother, my Great-uncle Charles, also passed away the same day, only 20-some minutes before, also from complications of dementia. His death actually made the New York Times in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/13\/business\/economy\/charles-r-morris-dead.html\">an article<\/a><span id='easy-footnote-1-2782' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=2782#easy-footnote-bottom-1-2782' title='Here&amp;#8217;s an &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20211215001855\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/13\/business\/economy\/charles-r-morris-dead.html&quot;&gt;archive link&lt;\/a&gt; for posterity.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> that also mentions my grandmother:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A sister, Marianne Donovan, also died on Monday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So my grandmother made the New York Times!<\/p>\n<p>I only saw Charles now and then at family events, but I do remember him encouraging me to continue writing when I was a child prodigy&#8230; or a child interested in writing stories at least.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/unclecharles-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2783\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/unclecharles-231x300.jpg 231w, http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/unclecharles-768x996.jpg 768w, http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/unclecharles-790x1024.jpg 790w, http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/unclecharles.jpg 1579w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My grandmother was very fond of Charles, so I can easily imagine them reunited, with their minds made whole again, entering the eternal kingdom together. Requiescat in pace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, my last surviving grandparent died on Monday. She had been suffering with dementia. Her brother, my Great-uncle Charles, also passed away the same day, only 20-some minutes before, also from complications of dementia. His death actually made the New York Times in an article that also mentions my grandmother: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-IS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2784,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782\/revisions\/2784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}