{"id":1906,"date":"2016-09-26T11:47:21","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T11:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1906"},"modified":"2025-09-29T19:01:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:01:23","slug":"my-brother-paul-11th-anniversary-of-losing-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1906","title":{"rendered":"My brother Paul; 11th anniversary of losing him"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Phil (brother #4) posted this picture of Tom, Jim and Paul (Phil hadn&#8217;t arrived yet &#8230;). Must have been when I was in the 7th or eighth grade. I have no recollection of this picture and certainly no recollection of Paul&#8217;s Commodore outfit. He&#8217;d have been five or six years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paul died at the age of 47 after a lifetime of illness. Here&#8217;s what I posted 11 years ago. <a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2005\/10\/paul_faranda_19.html\">Tom Faranda&#8217;s Folly: Paul Faranda, 1958-2005<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As my brother Jim said about him, &#8220;He lead a noble life.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d2211db4970c-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13418\" title=\"Tom jim paul\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d2211db4970c-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d2211db4970c-500wi-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d2211db4970c-500wi-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil (brother #4) posted this picture of Tom, Jim and Paul (Phil hadn&#8217;t arrived yet &#8230;). Must have been when I was in the 7th or eighth grade. I have no recollection of this picture and certainly no recollection of Paul&#8217;s Commodore outfit. He&#8217;d have been five or six years old. Paul died at 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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906","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=1906"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13420,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions\/13420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}