{"id":27133,"date":"2019-04-15T16:47:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T00:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=27133"},"modified":"2019-04-28T16:56:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T00:56:25","slug":"one-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=27133","title":{"rendered":"One year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first-year anniversary of my parents&#8217; accident &#8211; April 11 &#8211; came and went. I flew to Madison to be with Sandy, and we spent time talking and reminiscing about them with my parents&#8217; minister before going to the cemetery that afternoon with our cousin Aimee. At the gravesite I read a letter Avery had written to my mom and dad and placed a stone that Zoe had sent from home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Q and the girls, meanwhile, stayed home and lit yahrzeit\u00c2\u00a0candles. They had been planning to go to synagogue on Friday night, too, but Avery came home sick that day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It makes me feel good that, despite my parents not being Jewish, we can use Jewish ways to honor them &#8211; and that my parents were likely the focus of the prayers and thoughts of people from many different faiths that day. It reminds me of just after their death &#8211; how I spoke with two rabbis and two ministers within 36 hours of the accident and how I received comfort from the words and prayers of each one of them. For me in those moments, and in all moments since then, religious differences just disappeared; all I was left with (and continue to feel) was love. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-M<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/memorial-candles-805x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27134\" width=\"403\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/memorial-candles-805x1024.jpg 805w, http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/memorial-candles-236x300.jpg 236w, http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/memorial-candles-768x977.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/memorial-candles.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first-year anniversary of my parents&#8217; accident &#8211; April 11 &#8211; came and went. I flew to Madison to be with Sandy, and we spent time talking and reminiscing about them with my parents&#8217; minister before going to the cemetery that afternoon with our cousin Aimee. At the gravesite I read a letter Avery had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100-two-kids-jan-dec-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27133"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27140,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27133\/revisions\/27140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}