{"id":948,"date":"2008-12-30T03:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T03:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/?p=948"},"modified":"2020-07-02T12:13:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T12:13:43","slug":"the-end-of-an-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/?p=948","title":{"rendered":"The End of an Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'><a href=\"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_9.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>Today the Carsons &#038; McFarlands met at Mom &#038; Dad&#8217;s home to clean out what Mom &#038; Dad have accumulated throughout the years, &#038; now no longer need. (Mom &#038; Dad have recently moved to the Reformed Presbyterian Home in Pittsburgh) All the siblings, grandchildren, and in laws came to help.<br \/>It was a sweet time, but sad too&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>The house in New Castle is to be sold; ironically the news came today that a person interested in buying it wants to tour it tomorrow. Good news in this housing market!<br \/>But, today was a day to ponder things, to remember good times, to reflect on precious family memories.<\/p>\n<p>A special blessing was watching the grandchildren being involved, interested, and supportive.<br \/>Afterward we met up once again in Pittsburgh, at the Home, to visit Mom &#038; Dad &#038; encourage them as they deal with life changes that are necessary, <br \/>and to honor them.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not an easy thing to leave your home behind.<\/p>\n<div style='clear:both; text-align:CENTER'><a href=\"http:\/\/picasa.google.com\/blogger\/\" target=\"ext\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/pbp.gif\" alt=\"Posted by Picasa\" style=\"border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Today the Carsons &#038; McFarlands met at Mom &#038; Dad&#8217;s home to clean out what Mom &#038; Dad have accumulated throughout the years, &#038; now no longer need. (Mom &#038; Dad have recently moved to the Reformed Presbyterian Home in Pittsburgh) All the siblings, grandchildren, and in laws came to help.It was a sweet [&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-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","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=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1334,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/1334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}