{"id":13894,"date":"2025-09-10T18:41:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T23:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=13894"},"modified":"2025-09-10T18:41:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T23:41:41","slug":"grief-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/13894","title":{"rendered":"Grief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, like every day since Trump was re-elected, I grieve for my country. I&#8217;ve none to spare for Mr. Kirk, but I am sorry for what his family, and especially his kids are going though now. They did not deserve this. They deserved to have a father raise them, nurture and care for them, love them from childhood into their adulthood. I am sorry for their loss.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One could wish Mr. Kirk had spent more of his time on loving and raising his own kids, and not demonizing other people&#8217;s kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, like every day since Trump was re-elected, I grieve for my country. I&#8217;ve none to spare for Mr. Kirk, but I am sorry for what his family, and especially his kids are going though now. They did not deserve this. They deserved to have a father raise them, nurture and care for them, love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,65],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-13894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-thumping-my-pulpit","tag-the-abyss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13895,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13894\/revisions\/13895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}