{"id":604,"date":"2010-02-09T07:38:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T11:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortispress.com\/blog\/?p=604"},"modified":"2010-02-09T07:38:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T11:38:13","slug":"saying-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=604","title":{"rendered":"Saying Goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Goodbye. Not a word that I particularly like. But this morning I said it to my youngest daughter and youngest grandchild who will be on their way to North Carolina when I get out of class.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t like the word because I don&#8217;t like separation. I want family and friends close. OK, maybe not always in my house (Grin), but close enough to be in my house at a moment&#8217;s notice.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want my kids and grandkids in North Carolina, or Lake Tahoe, California or Huntsville, Texas, or Wichita, Kansas. Only Jon&#8217;s family is with us in Canyon.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose I&#8217;m a little conflicted about this. Because I&#8217;m glad and proud that my kids have established happy homes on their own. Just wish they were closer.<\/p>\n<p>Looked up the etymology of the word last night. The Middle English was &#8220;godbwye,&#8221; a contraction for &#8220;God be with ye.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nice thought, huh? My family can be separated from me but never from God. Somehow makes it bearable. Not painless. Bearable. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goodbye. Not a word that I particularly like. But this morning I said it to my youngest daughter and youngest grandchild who will be on their way to North Carolina when I get out of class. Don&#8217;t like the word because I don&#8217;t like separation. I want family and friends close. OK, maybe not always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}