{"id":287,"date":"2000-07-04T05:40:08","date_gmt":"2000-07-04T05:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soulhuntre.com\/items\/date\/2000\/07\/04\/if-it-had-to-happen-but-why-should-it-have-to\/"},"modified":"2000-07-04T05:40:08","modified_gmt":"2000-07-04T05:40:08","slug":"if-it-had-to-happen-but-why-should-it-have-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/2000\/07\/04\/if-it-had-to-happen-but-why-should-it-have-to\/","title":{"rendered":"if it had to happen – but why should it have to?"},"content":{"rendered":"

if it had to happen<\/u><\/b> – but why should it have to?<\/p>\n

As anyone who pays attention in girl2<\/a>
\n knows,
Tatsumi<\/a>‘s
\n family suffered the loss of one member recently. I could go on and
\n on about mortality here, but I am tired and I don’t really know
\n that this is the time.<\/p>\n

I will say this, we were at a family gathering with them last weekend
\n and it was as nice as anyone could have asked for. Their family
\n is as close as any I have ever seen – and closer than most. On top
\n of that, these are good people – charitable and always willing to
\n help. I won’t go into much detail – it’s not my purpose to drag
\n their lives into public view but it was amazing how they could be
\n together as a group. <\/p>\n

Her Grandfather was the recipient of a lot of very affectionate
\n attention, he smiled and laughed and spent a wonderful day with
\n his family… spread out before him across their generations from
\n small children to grown adults an excellent legacy. They told stories,
\n they sang together, he took a nap I know he enjoyed and they ate
\n some great food. <\/p>\n

I was an amazing afternoon for them, and I am sure it was an incredible
\n day out for him.<\/p>\n

Death is never a good thing, but if it has to happen then that
\n is surely among the best ways… quietly with the warm memory of such a
\n day out with all your family, loving and being loved, seeing first
\n hand how much you have created in the word and how much good you
\n have done.<\/p>\n

I should be so lucky when my time comes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

if it had to happen – but why should it have to? As anyone who pays attention in girl2 knows, Tatsumi‘s family suffered the loss of one member recently. I could go on and on about mortality here, but I am tired and I don’t really know that this is the time. I will say […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}