{"id":61,"date":"2001-03-21T14:13:43","date_gmt":"2001-03-21T22:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/?p=61"},"modified":"2009-08-15T21:20:48","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T05:20:48","slug":"uncle-tony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/2001\/03\/21\/uncle-tony\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncle Tony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>my uncle tony <!--no relation, like most of those i call Uncle, but a close friend nonetheless.--> died the other day, suddenly and too soon.<br \/>\nnot only was he an amazing <a href=\"javascript:alert('i would be so lucky to someday paint a fraction as well as he.');\" title=\"footnote\">artist<\/a>, but he was also a kind, generous and compassionate man, and i feel lucky to have known him.<\/p>\n<p>he had no children but a wife who was always by his side, and in my memory, there was never one without the other&#8211;at a party, on a trip or in any setting. and now, mom said, tita angie looked so lost sitting in the corner, clutching his photograph and wiping the dust off the wooden frame.<\/p>\n<p>i wasn&#8217;t there, but the image is so clear i feel as though i were. i can&#8217;t imagine losing someone so dear to me, my confidante, my lover, my best friend. it would be like finding my other half and then losing it again. what would i do with all the empty space?<\/p>\n<p>it breaks my heart and boggles my mind and scares the hell out of me. eventually, i will lose everyone i love. it&#8217;s not death that i&#8217;m afraid of; it&#8217;s that i would miss everyone too much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>my uncle tony died the other day, suddenly and too soon. not only was he an amazing artist, but he was also a kind, generous and compassionate man, and i feel lucky to have known him. he had no children but a wife who was always by his side, and in my memory, there was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1294,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}