{"id":12740,"date":"2023-08-05T08:36:35","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T15:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=12740"},"modified":"2023-08-05T08:36:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T15:36:37","slug":"in-memoriam-natalie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2023\/08\/in-memoriam-natalie\/","title":{"rendered":"In memoriam Natalie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My ex-mother-in-law Natalie passed away today. Just a few days shy of her 90th birthday on August 14th. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a photo of us together. We are preparing for lunch in Burano, Italy. January 28, 2012. She had vowed to travel to Venice after her husband Tom passed away, and she did just that. Rented an apartment for an extended period and invited people to come stay with her. Sam and I took advantage of the invitation, even though I had been divorced from her son for many years. It was a lovely trip.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/NatalieVenice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/NatalieVenice.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/NatalieVenice.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/NatalieVenice-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/NatalieVenice-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My ex-mother-in-law Natalie passed away today. Just a few days shy of her 90th birthday on August 14th. Here&#8217;s a photo of us together. We are preparing for lunch in Burano, Italy. January 28,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12742,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12740\/revisions\/12742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}