{"id":15,"date":"2011-08-04T09:36:44","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T17:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.tsehome.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2013-04-25T09:37:53","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T17:37:53","slug":"the-last-moments-with-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.tsehome.com\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"The last moments with dad.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was Monday afternoon. Dad looked more dehydrated. His eyes had sunken more. I tried to give him more water, a quarter of a teaspoon at a time. He did not refuse water as the day before. He took about half a cup of water before he said enough. He closed his eyes most of the time, only opened them when I called him louder. At one time he appeared to try to say something to me. It was so soft and unclear; I did not understand. We asked him if he had any discomfort. Again, he shook his head. I saw that he was much weaker. When I thought about his condition ahead, I could not hold back my tears. I wept, and wept. I was very sad. I prayed to the Lord: bring my dad home peacefully. I went back to see him, trying to give him more water. I thought he needed more water. He took very little and indicated enough. I went out of the room for a while. I returned and looked at him. I wept again&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>About an hour and a half after I left, YW called and told me that dad had stopped breathing. I went back and saw that his spirit has gone. He was no longer there&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I trust you Lord&#8230; Thank you dad&#8230;. see you &#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was Monday afternoon. Dad looked more dehydrated. His eyes had sunken more. I tried to give him more water, a quarter of a teaspoon at a time. He did not refuse water as the day before. He took about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chris.tsehome.com\/?p=15\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.tsehome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.tsehome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.tsehome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.tsehome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.tsehome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chris.tsehome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"https:\/\/chris.tsehome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.tsehome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.tsehome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.tsehome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}