{"id":17981,"date":"2015-01-10T22:31:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T03:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=17981"},"modified":"2019-11-26T07:01:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T12:01:23","slug":"dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/01\/10\/dad\/","title":{"rendered":"Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dad\"<\/p>\n

The site has been quiet for a while because I was with my father who had become ill and passed\u00a0away. I was hoping he would rally as he had done in the past, but it was not to be.\u00a0He died\u00a0on January 2nd – two days after turning 80.<\/p>\n

\"FamilyPortrait\"<\/p>\n

My father was the eleventh of twelve children – he’s the little boy in the front row. He was a quiet man, a carpenter who could drive a four inch nail with two taps and a swing, and a terrific dancer thanks to his sisters. We’ll miss him.<\/p>\n

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The site has been quiet for a while because I was with my father who had become ill and passed\u00a0away. I was hoping he would rally as he had done in the past, but it was not to be.\u00a0He died\u00a0on … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,3113],"tags":[333,127,3412],"class_list":["post-17981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-photo-restoration-2","tag-connecticut","tag-dad","tag-garceau-family"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1ed1x-dad","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24950,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2019\/01\/30\/100-years\/","url_meta":{"origin":17981,"position":0},"title":"100 Years","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"January 30, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Today marks the 100th anniversary of my Dad's birth. 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