{"id":284,"date":"2011-08-01T01:27:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T05:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulhippo.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/01\/frankies-gone\/"},"modified":"2011-08-01T01:27:10","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T05:27:10","slug":"frankies-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2011\/08\/01\/frankies-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankie&#8217;s Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My best friend, Frankie Jewell Overstreet, died this (Sunday) morning at 11:15. I can&#8217;t tell you how much I&#8217;m going to miss her. I must have read over 40 books to her, mostly over the phone, over the past 6 years, and I could always count on her to tell me what was on her mind and know that, even when it wasn&#8217;t what I wanted to hear, that she didn&#8217;t say it to hurt me, which quite often put me back on the &#8220;right&#8221; path. She was a very complex woman, I probably couldn&#8217;t even tell you one tenth of the complexity. Just know that I&#8217;ve dropped quite a few tears today and over the past few days from when it looked like she was leaving. In the end, she was killed by doctors who did tissue grafts to her feet 5 years ago. They left 3 staples in, and those staples didn&#8217;t get found for almost 4 years and were the center of the infection that eventually did her in. She almost lost both feet at that time 5 years ago, and fought tooth and claw to keep them. She may not have died with her boots on, but she still had feet to put them on if she had them with her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My best friend, Frankie Jewell Overstreet, died this (Sunday) morning at 11:15. I can&#8217;t tell you how much I&#8217;m going to miss her. I must have read over 40 books to her, mostly over the phone, over the past 6 years, and I could always count on her to tell me what was on her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}