{"id":9716,"date":"2014-09-12T11:57:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T15:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/?p=9716"},"modified":"2014-09-12T11:57:43","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T15:57:43","slug":"did-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/?p=9716","title":{"rendered":"Did You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is more a mind dumping than poem.<br \/>\nI was married 20 years ago today.<br \/>\nIt was my second marriage.<br \/>\nMy first only lasted 9 months.<br \/>\nI was 35 the first time and<br \/>\n37 the second.<br \/>\nI always say sometimes you need a learners permit.<br \/>\nHere I am 20 years down the road of life<br \/>\nof course many many bumps and holes in that road<br \/>\nBut now that I look back<br \/>\neach and every bump and hole was a learning experience<br \/>\nBut I never thought that I would be a widower<br \/>\nwith a 15 year old son.<br \/>\nTears well up as I type this just thinking back<br \/>\nQuestions come up everyday since she is gone<br \/>\nWhat effect does this have on my son<br \/>\nI know what it has had on me<br \/>\nI feel as if I have been in a fog<br \/>\nAnd sometimes I wonder if it will ever lift<br \/>\nI have started to look for another lady in my live<br \/>\nI am too young to be alone the rest of my life<br \/>\nThe sequel to &#8216;Must Love Dogs&#8217; will be my dating life<br \/>\nI really don&#8217;t know where this is going<br \/>\nI just know there are many out there<br \/>\nwho have gone through what I have<br \/>\nTo answer my own title question<br \/>\nNo I never thought I would be in this situation<br \/>\nat 57 having my wife taken at 48<br \/>\nSo to all of you that have been there done that<br \/>\nYou know how I feel<br \/>\nThanks<\/p>\n<p> BY RGAI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is more a mind dumping than poem. I was married 20 years ago today. It was my second marriage. My first only lasted 9 months. I was 35 the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/?p=9716\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Did You Think<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}