{"id":1097,"date":"2007-05-08T20:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T20:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2020-07-02T12:13:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T12:13:54","slug":"remembering-a-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/?p=1097","title":{"rendered":"Remembering a friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow, May 9th, is the second anniversary of a friend&#8217;s death.<br \/>Bruce, a tall, soft-spoken, philosopher from Texas, died of brain cancer in 2005. My dear, dear, friend Kathy &#038; her husband Bruce were married for over 25 years. They were one of the first couples we met when we came to Peace church. We all attended a Sunday School class taught by precious folks John &amp; Carolyn Clark.<\/p>\n<p>Dealing with such a devastating disease is exhausting for everyone, but Bruce dealt with his suffering with grace and great faith. He never complained, I mean never. His only worry was for Kathy. His last words to me were &#8220;take care of Kathy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Bless you, Bruce. You endured to the end. We rejoice to think you&#8217;ll be waiting to greet us in Heaven:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow, May 9th, is the second anniversary of a friend&#8217;s death.Bruce, a tall, soft-spoken, philosopher from Texas, died of brain cancer in 2005. My dear, dear, friend Kathy &#038; her husband Bruce were married for over 25 years. They were one of the first couples we met when we came to Peace church. We all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1483,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions\/1483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}