{"id":1112,"date":"2004-11-17T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-17T20:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2004-11-17T12:42:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-17T20:42:00","slug":"its-getting-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=1112","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Getting Closer&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and I&#8217;m trying not to think about it. Tomorrow at this time I&#8217;ll be meeting with Rabbi Sherwood, doing the identification, saying my final goodbyes to my father, and in general steeling myself for the funeral which starts at 1:00 <font size=\"-2\">PM<\/font> PST. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a long week, what with arranging the funeral, making the phone calls, sorting through the finances to see what Rae (my stepmother) and I are going to need to do after the funeral, dealing with the raw emotions that come out of everyone involved at this time. The logistics behind this are incredible, and I thank everyone who has been helping with them. Of course, I only get a few days off of work, so I&#8217;ve been working yesterday and today, working to get all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acsac.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">the conference<\/a> stuff out in time for textbooks to come in. The upcoming weekends are crazy as well, as folks who have seen my travel postings know.<\/p>\n<p>So, I keep muddling through&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and I&#8217;m trying not to think about it. Tomorrow at this time I&#8217;ll be meeting with Rabbi Sherwood, doing the identification, saying my final goodbyes to my father, and in general steeling myself for the funeral which starts at 1:00 PM PST. It&#8217;s been a long week, what with arranging the funeral, making the phone <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=1112\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[149,137],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lj-xfer","tag-dads-accident-2004","tag-dear-old-dad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}