{"id":689,"date":"2016-05-09T21:19:07","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T01:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/?p=689"},"modified":"2025-12-28T09:47:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:47:28","slug":"the-great-love-of-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/?p=689","title":{"rendered":"The Great Love of My Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/cp-cuddle.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-691\" alt=\"cp cuddle\" src=\"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/cp-cuddle-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-25\" alt=\"dscn03131\" src=\"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dscn03131.jpg\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dscn03131.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-25\" alt=\"dscn03131\" src=\"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dscn03131.jpg\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/alancp-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-26\" alt=\"alancp-copy\" src=\"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/alancp-copy.jpg\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/a>April 15th, 2016, my wife Carolyn went home to be with her Lord. During her three year battle with ovarian cancer I witnessed the faith and bravery of a remarkable woman. I may never love as deeply again.\u00a0 The 34 years we had together were wonderful beyond words. She was my best friend, confidant, lover.\u00a0 Knowing she is resting in the arms of her Lord helps a little to ease the sorrow I feel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 15th, 2016, my wife Carolyn went home to be with her Lord. During her three year battle with ovarian cancer I witnessed the faith and bravery of a remarkable woman. I may never love as deeply again.\u00a0 The 34 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/?p=689\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":802,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions\/802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}