{"id":13432,"date":"2013-08-23T20:39:25","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T02:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=13432"},"modified":"2013-08-23T20:39:25","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T02:39:25","slug":"a-big-orange-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2013\/08\/a-big-orange-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"A Big Orange Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have received such wonderful words&#8230; by email and phone.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, dear friends.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug13\/BigOrangeSun2605.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug13\/BigOrangeSun2605.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But, some very special and oh, so helpful words and thoughts came today from dear Margaret in Greece.<\/p>\n<p>She wrote: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today I couldn&#8217;t help thinking of Mr Bob and the image in my mind was of a big, orange sun. His warmth spread across oceans to another continent and stole into my heart. His life was full, his company, the best. You made all the right decisions &#8211; his quality of life was the important thing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Those words, the mind&#8217;s eye image, came just when I needed it.  <\/p>\n<p>I was ready for my work meeting with half an hour to go and suddenly the grief hit and I just wanted to crawl into bed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug13\/BigOrangeSun2606.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug13\/BigOrangeSun2606.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But, these words, the image, the love and the goodness of Bob&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug13\/BigOrangeSun2608.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug13\/BigOrangeSun2608.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This evening, the universe agreed and as Bear and I had our evening walk&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A big Orange Sun:  Mr. Bob&#8217;s LOVE&#8230;. across the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have received such wonderful words&#8230; by email and phone. Thank you, dear friends. But, some very special and oh, so helpful words and thoughts came today from dear Margaret in Greece. She wrote: Today I couldn&#8217;t help thinking of Mr Bob and the image in my mind was of a big, orange sun. His [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bob","category-front-porch-musings"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13432"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13437,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13432\/revisions\/13437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}