{"id":58102,"date":"2025-02-04T00:02:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T00:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58102"},"modified":"2025-02-04T00:02:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T00:02:48","slug":"worst-day-spawns-new-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58102","title":{"rendered":"Worst day spawns new life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The worst day of my life befell my family and me two years ago today.<\/p>\n<p>My beloved bride, Kathy Anne, lost her battle with glioblastoma. Fifty-one years with this wonderful woman could not have been more glorious, adventuresome and thrilling as we watched our sons grow into the two finest men you&#8217;ll ever know. We also watched our granddaughter come into this world and she, too, is growing into a delightful young lady.<\/p>\n<p>I am not going to dwell, though, on the sorrow. I am going to deal briefly with the journey I have taken on my way out of the darkness.<\/p>\n<p>I took that journey largely on instruction from my bride, who told me that if she were to go first that she wanted me &#8212; she insisted on it &#8212; to find happiness. Do not wallow in grief, she said. Kathy Anne was a woman of conviction, which told me she meant what she said.<\/p>\n<p>My life is still under reconstruction. I don&#8217;t know when I&#8217;ll be able to declare that my task is complete. Maybe it&#8217;ll never be done completely. Whatever. I am ready for whatever comes my way.<\/p>\n<p>She prepared me well for this kind of journey. For that preparation I will be in her debt forever.<\/p>\n<p>Every single person I have met, or will meet along the rest of this trek will know that I miss her. I just intend to tell the whole world, though, that despite her absence I will live every day as if it&#8217;s my final day on this good Earth.<\/p>\n<p>That is my bride&#8217;s legacy.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The worst day of my life befell my family and me two years ago today. My beloved bride, Kathy Anne, lost her battle with glioblastoma. Fifty-one years with this wonderful woman could not have been more glorious, adventuresome and thrilling as we watched our sons grow into the two finest men you&#8217;ll ever know. We &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58102\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Worst day spawns new life<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10124],"class_list":["post-58102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-kathy-anne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58103,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58102\/revisions\/58103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}