{"id":1285,"date":"2017-11-24T17:39:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T16:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2018-02-16T15:35:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T14:35:16","slug":"my-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/2017\/11\/my-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"My Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Dad passed away on 10 November 2017 after a short illness. He had been coping with slowing increasing dementia for several years.<\/p>\n<p>His funeral was at Chipstable church on 20th November, and I&#8217;m adding a few bits of memorabia from the service and the wake.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/D-Wickham-OS1.pdf\">David Wickham Order of Service<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As always at these events you find out things you never knew about the person who&#8217;s passed away.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1288\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1288\" style=\"width: 295px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1971-Rex-nearly-due.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1288\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1971-Rex-nearly-due-295x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1971-Rex-nearly-due-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1971-Rex-nearly-due-768x780.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1971-Rex-nearly-due-1008x1024.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1971-Rex-nearly-due.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 85vw, 295px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1288\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mum and Dad in 1971<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was great to hear the stories from people who came and read the letters from those who could not make it.<\/p>\n<p>Eulogy by my brother James: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Eulogy.pdf\">Eulogy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Additional comments by Peter Parsons: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Peter-Parsons-Eulogy-Dad-funeral-2017.txt\">Peter Parsons Eulogy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Dad passed away on 10 November 2017 after a short illness. He had been coping with slowing increasing dementia for several years. His funeral was at Chipstable church on 20th November, and I&#8217;m adding a few bits of memorabia from the service and the wake. David Wickham Order of Service As always at these &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/2017\/11\/my-dad\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Dad&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[244],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-locally","tag-david-wickham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions\/1306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}