{"id":238,"date":"2007-06-06T16:12:59","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T23:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=238"},"modified":"2007-07-04T17:20:33","modified_gmt":"2007-07-05T00:20:33","slug":"charles-emory-woodford-1925-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=238","title":{"rendered":"Charles Emory Woodford, 1925-2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can honestly say Dad’s funeral was a celebration of his life<\/a>.\u00a0 Not a dry eye in the house, but a celebration nevertheless.\u00a0 He accomplished a lot in his four score and two.\u00a0 He influenced a wide circle of people.\u00a0 He had a large and loving family.\u00a0 He had multitudes of friends.\u00a0 He made a difference.<\/p>\n

I’ll probably write more about Dad in the future\u00a0. . .\u00a0how can I not write about the man who convinced Missouri Republicans that naming the mule state animal would not threaten their hegemony, or who talked the local VA hospital into building a chapel and then made sure they engraved an F-15 on its glass door?\u00a0 But that will be in the future, after I’ve had time to think about things.\u00a0 We all need time to think about things when a loved one dies.<\/p>\n

My wife always says I’m just like my father.\u00a0 The day after Dad’s funeral I found myself, sitting in Dad’s chair out on the patio while holding forth on various subjects, suddenly aware that my siblings and in-laws\u00a0were giving me the same look I get from Donna.\u00a0 And then I glanced at my son Gregory, who had an “oh my God, I’m just like my <\/em>father” expression on his face.\u00a0 Later that night, passing around the family albums, my sisters and I looked at childhood photos of Dad, me, my son Gregory, and Gregory’s son Quentin.\u00a0 The same little boy looked back at us.\u00a0 Talk about your endless chain of generations.<\/p>\n

But it’s a good thing.\u00a0 Dad laid a\u00a0solid foundation, and the Woodford house will last a long time.<\/p>\n

Rest in peace, Dad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can honestly say Dad’s funeral was a celebration of his life.\u00a0 Not a dry eye in the house, but a celebration nevertheless.\u00a0 He accomplished a lot in his four score and two.\u00a0 He influenced a wide circle of people.\u00a0 He had a large and loving family.\u00a0 He had multitudes of friends.\u00a0 He made a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}