{"id":321,"date":"2020-03-24T18:35:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T18:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/?p=321"},"modified":"2020-03-24T18:35:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T18:35:19","slug":"last-year-of-his-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/last-year-of-his-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Year of His Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Last Year of His Life<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My brother and I clean out Dad\u2019s room <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>at the assisted living facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Six bags full of<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;paper: shopping\nlists, letters <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>magazines: Physics, Science <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>receipts: utility bills, credit card<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I use a few bags to cover framed photos <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to take home. Mt.\n Denali, the pileated <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>woodpecker picture I gave him for Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a black lawn bag, we stuff<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the suit he wore to Mom\u2019s memorial, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>sweat pants, his khakis, shirts, items <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>we thought Goodwill could use.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The\nMaynard<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4\/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 &nbsp;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\/last-year-of-his-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Last Year of His Life<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","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\/321","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}