{"id":3716,"date":"2008-05-29T11:37:13","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T15:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=3716"},"modified":"2017-05-29T11:42:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T15:42:19","slug":"in-memory-j-p-letourneau-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2008\/05\/29\/in-memory-j-p-letourneau-2\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memory \u2013 J.P. Letourneau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 29, 2007<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Letourneau.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3717\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Letourneau-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Letourneau-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Letourneau.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/a>One year already, you went to a better place where you have no more pain.<br \/>\nI face an empty chair, but sometimes in the silence, I imagine you there.<br \/>\nMy companion for so many years, no longer here with me,<br \/>\nany yet in some mysterious way, you keep me company.<br \/>\nOften I turn towards the couch to say something to you,<br \/>\nJust to realize it is empty.<br \/>\nI have a digital frame on my desk, with many pictures of you,<br \/>\nI laugh, I cry, I get mad with you.<br \/>\nYou have spoiled our little dog so bad,<br \/>\nWhen she starts to whine nonstop,<br \/>\nI tell you if you were going to spoil her this much, you could have stayed here with her and me.<br \/>\nYou know they say memories are golden,<br \/>\nMaybe that is true,<br \/>\nBut I never wanted just memories of you, I only wanted you.<br \/>\nYou were a loving husband and father, grandfather and uncle.<br \/>\nYou neve said goodbye to me, maybe it was best that way,<br \/>\nbecause I wouldn\u2019t have been able to say goodbye, and you knew that.<br \/>\nStill very missed and loved.<br \/>\nLove, your wife<br \/>\nFrance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 29, 2007 One year already, you went to a better place where you have no more pain. I face an empty chair, but sometimes in the silence, I imagine you there. My companion for so many years, no longer here with me, any yet in some mysterious way, you keep me company. Often I &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[504,505],"class_list":["post-3716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fnews","tag-j-p-letourneau","tag-jean-pierre-letourneau"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 13:58:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3718,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions\/3718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}