{"id":241,"date":"2018-11-16T19:24:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=241"},"modified":"2018-11-16T19:24:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:24:34","slug":"the-last-year-of-his-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/the-last-year-of-his-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Year of His Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Last Year of His Life<\/strong><br \/>\nMy brother and I clean out Dad\u2019s room<br \/>\nat the assisted living facility.<br \/>\nSix bags full of<br \/>\n    paper: shopping lists, letters<br \/>\n    magazines: Physics, Science<br \/>\n    receipts: utility bills, credit card<\/p>\n<p>I use a few bags to cover framed photos<br \/>\nto take home. Mt. Denali, the pileated<br \/>\nwoodpecker picture I gave him for Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>In a black lawn bag, we stuff<br \/>\nthe suit he wore to Mom\u2019s memorial,<br \/>\nsweat pants, his khakis, shirts, items<br \/>\nwe thought Goodwill could use.\t<\/p>\n<p>The Maynard<br \/>\n4\/2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Last Year of His Life My brother and I clean out Dad\u2019s room at the assisted living facility. Six bags full of paper: shopping lists, letters magazines: Physics, Science receipts: utility bills, credit card I use a few bags to cover framed photos to take home. Mt. Denali, the pileated woodpecker picture I gave&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/the-last-year-of-his-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Last Year of His Life<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-published-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}