{"id":5326,"date":"2012-07-19T16:49:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T21:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=5326"},"modified":"2012-07-19T16:49:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T21:49:19","slug":"the-black-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=5326","title":{"rendered":"The Black Ring."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5327\" title=\"photo\" src=\"http:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/photo-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/photo-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/photo-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/photo-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/photo.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I bought a new ring this weekend.\u00a0 Since I had lost 20 pounds after Kathys&#8217; death, I was afraid that I might loose my wedding ring, so I took it off.\u00a0 Yet, I really felt a need to have a ring on that finger.\u00a0 After all, I had a wonderful 37 year marriage but death ended my marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Then, this weekend, I saw a black ring and said &#8220;yes!\u00a0 That is exactly what I am look for!&#8221;\u00a0 It is a wedding band to symbolize my marriage and black to symbolize the loss of my precious wife.\u00a0 Strange as it may sound, I now feel whole again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a new ring this weekend.\u00a0 Since I had lost 20 pounds after Kathys&#8217; death, I was afraid that I might loose my wedding ring, so I took it off.\u00a0 Yet, I really felt a need to have a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=5326\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p20gJN-1nU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5326"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5346,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326\/revisions\/5346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}