{"id":268,"date":"2011-07-18T19:16:43","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T02:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/?p=268"},"modified":"2011-08-13T13:02:16","modified_gmt":"2011-08-13T20:02:16","slug":"simons-namesake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/simons-namesake\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon&#8217;s namesake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simon got his middle name from my grandfather, Oscar de Jesus Duque.\u00a0 Papito died July 18 in Bogota at age 93, five days after his first great-grandchild was born. Cancer had already stolen his mobility and energy, so it&#8217;s not a sad death.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds something out of a Garcia Marquez novel, but we think having a namesake helped Papito let go. \u00a0My aunt Ellie says he even talked about one last trip to the States to meet him.\u00a0 She says he was scared and Simon Oscar let him make peace with dying.<\/p>\n<p>The only sad part is that my mom couldn&#8217;t go down to Bogota for the funeral because she doesn&#8217;t have her passport with her.<\/p>\n<p>I hope Simon Oscar shares his great-grandfather&#8217;s sense of adventure and his insatiable appetite for life.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_275\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_0300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-275\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-275\" title=\"IMG_0300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_0300-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_0300-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_0300-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_0300.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-275\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Papito and Mom (Oscar and Madeline), Joanna&#39;s college graduation, 2007<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon got his middle name from my grandfather, Oscar de Jesus Duque.\u00a0 Papito died July 18 in Bogota at age 93, five days after his first great-grandchild was born. Cancer had already stolen his mobility and energy, so it&#8217;s not a sad death. It sounds something out of a Garcia Marquez novel, but we think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,29],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-h-sapiens-var-simon","tag-child"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568,"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stemwedel.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}