{"id":1604,"date":"2018-02-17T10:44:01","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T10:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2025-09-27T19:27:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T19:27:31","slug":"i-met-brigid-40-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1604","title":{"rendered":"I met Brigid 40 years ago today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The greatest day of <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">her<\/span> my life. No pictures from that day &#8211; we met at a party I was having at my flat in Mandeville, Jamaica. I had seen her a couple of times around town. Here&#8217;s Brigid about a year later, and several months before we got married, at a place called &#8220;Lover&#8217;s Leap&#8221; on the south coast of Jamaica.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"368\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d2db35c0970c-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10911\" title=\"Lovers leap 79 (2)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d2db35c0970c-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d2db35c0970c-500wi-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s Brigid 20 years later &#8211; September &#8217;97 with a couple of young guys &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb09f422d7970d-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10910\" title=\"Sept1997_06A\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb09f422d7970d-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb09f422d7970d-500wi-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;a 2014 picture &#8211; which I love &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"835\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d2db35ec970c-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10909\" title=\"Brigid October 2014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d2db35ec970c-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d2db35ec970c-500wi-180x300.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brigid sent this New Year&#8217;s Picture around &#8211; working over her gin &amp; tonic (thanks Mike!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b7c950cc1b970b-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10908\" title=\"Brigid new year greetings\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b7c950cc1b970b-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b7c950cc1b970b-500wi-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The greatest day of her my life. No pictures from that day &#8211; we met at a party I was having at my flat in Mandeville, Jamaica. I had seen her a couple of times around town. Here&#8217;s Brigid about a year later, and several months before we got married, at a place called &#8220;Lover&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10912,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions\/10912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}