{"id":21380,"date":"2017-12-28T02:12:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T01:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/12\/28\/the-final-act-of-love-i-knew-i-wanted-to-keep-him-with-me\/"},"modified":"2017-12-28T02:12:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T01:12:03","slug":"the-final-act-of-love-i-knew-i-wanted-to-keep-him-with-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=21380","title":{"rendered":"The final act of love: &#039;I knew I wanted to keep him with me&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As people search for ways to reclaim death from the funeral industry, a home vigil can help with the grieving process\u2022 The final act of love: reclaiming the rites of modern deathPete Thorpe was a wiry, strong and vital man. He loved his children, his wife, Fiona Edmeades, and the home they shared in Bondi. At 69, he was a well-known local character who was regarded with great warmth by all who knew him.In early October he was laid up with stomach flu. It struck and didn\u2019t budge for two days. Everyone expected that he would be back on his feet by the weekend. But on the evening of the third day \u2013 a Tuesday \u2013 Thorpe died suddenly of a heart attack. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2017\/dec\/28\/the-final-act-of-love-i-knew-i-wanted-to-keep-him-with-me\" target=\"_blank\">The final act of love: &#039;I knew I wanted to keep him with me&#039;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As people search for ways to reclaim death from the funeral industry, a home vigil can help with the grieving process\u2022 The final act of love: reclaiming the rites of modern deathPete Thorpe was a wiry, strong and vital man. He loved his children, his wife, Fiona Edmeades, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}