{"id":301,"date":"2009-01-25T19:32:14","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T01:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/?p=301"},"modified":"2009-01-25T19:32:14","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T01:32:14","slug":"getting-ready-to-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/?p=301","title":{"rendered":"Getting ready to leave…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well… my week here in NYC is almost over. I am in the process of packing my things (taking a break at the moment), my boarding pass is ready to go, and the memorial today for my grandmother was really nice. <\/font><\/p>\n

I think everyone that I had ever met from my father’s side of the family was there. There were also many that I had never met as well. Some people knew me, came up to talk to me, knew things ABOUT me, and I felt a little bad because I had NO idea who they were. <\/font><\/p>\n

The words that the family had were heartfelt and sad at times. Some were short, some were long. My dad’s was especially good. My Aunt Marlene read an excerpt from a book by Deepak Chopra’s “<\/font>Life After Death: The Burden of Proof<\/font><\/a>“. I enjoyed this. <\/font><\/p>\n

After all of the words were spoken, we all kind of hung around while people talked, shared storied and reminisced. I was happy I was there. <\/font><\/p>\n

After the proceedings concluded, we left and stopped at Andrew’s diner for a bit to eat on the way home. As you can see from my <\/font>food blog<\/font><\/a>, I got a HUGE gyro platter. No fries… extra salad… yum!<\/font><\/p>\n

Although it’s always a little sad to leave home, I am REALLY looking forward to getting home tomorrow. I miss Victoria SO much. I really can’t wait to see her. <\/font><\/p>\n

I had better get back to packing… <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well… my week here in NYC is almost over. I am in the process of packing my things (taking a break at the moment), my boarding pass is ready to go, and the memorial today for my grandmother was really nice. I think everyone that I had ever met from my father’s side of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}