{"id":320,"date":"2003-09-30T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-30T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=320"},"modified":"2003-09-30T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-30T13:00:00","slug":"eulogy-for-elsie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"Eulogy for Elsie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>L<\/span>ast Tuesday we put Elsie MacKay to rest in New Germany. The following is the eulogy I wrote for the memorial service in Truro&#8217;s United Church. It&#8217;s put here for reference purposes only.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div class=quote>\n<p><strong>Hi, mom, aunt, nan, Elsie,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Four days ago, you took your last breath,<br \/>\nleaving all of us behind: your children, sister and brothers,<br \/>\nyour cousins, your grandchildren, greatgrandchildren, friends and in-laws<br \/>\nYour sudden illness has left us with many questions. Some of them have been answered.<br \/>\nSome of them will never be answered.<br \/>\nBut you left us peacefully and all that rest us our the memories.\n<\/p>\n<p>We fondly remember your laughter, voice and smile<br \/>\nWe fondly remember sharing gifts, presents and surprises<br \/>\nWe fondly remember your wit, courage and strength<br \/>\nAbove all we remember your kindness, humbleness, and your love<br \/>\nfor everybody who was around.<br \/>\nNo matter how many shortcomings we had, you loved us anyways.\n<\/p>\n<p>So today we not only mourn the loss of a truly remarkable person,<br \/>\nwe also remember the person that was you. We&#8217;ll remember you, think of you and carry you with us. Until we meet again.\n<\/p>\n<p>We miss you already.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Tuesday we put Elsie MacKay to rest in New Germany. The following is the eulogy I wrote for the memorial service in Truro&#8217;s United Church. It&#8217;s put here for reference purposes only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}