{"id":198,"date":"2025-02-17T04:19:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T04:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=198"},"modified":"2025-09-27T17:09:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T17:09:39","slug":"47th-anniversary-of-meeting-brigid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"47th anniversary of meeting Brigid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">UPDATE<\/span>:<\/strong> See the comments section for that snazzy outfit &#8211; Kariba suit &#8211; I am wearing!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yup. On a Friday, Feb 17th, 1978. At a party in my flat on Bonito Crescent, Mandeville Jamaica. She crashed it. The first picture is about a year later at a spot called Lover&#8217;s Leap on the south coast of Jamaica, as she contemplated&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e202e860f9ca54200d-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e202e860f9ca54200d-450wi\" alt=\"Lovers leap 3 (2)\" title=\"Lovers leap 3 (2)\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s our wedding in Jamaica, June 1979. She had given me that great haircut (!) two days earlier&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"921\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/6a00d834525a2f69e202c8d3cc227c200c-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10621\" title=\"Wedding  edit\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/6a00d834525a2f69e202c8d3cc227c200c-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/6a00d834525a2f69e202c8d3cc227c200c-500wi-163x300.jpg 163w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of my all time favorite pictures! Brigid about to do a night dive on Grand Cayman (where we lived for two years after leaving Jamaica) &#8211; in spring of 1981. Night dives were great &#8211; different fish and coral at night. Never went deeper on a night dive than 30-35 feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/6a00d834525a2f69e202e860e2c3b6200b-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10620\" title=\"Brigid crop 1 of night dive\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/6a00d834525a2f69e202e860e2c3b6200b-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/6a00d834525a2f69e202e860e2c3b6200b-500wi-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And two years ago at a wedding in France<\/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\/2025\/02\/6a00d834525a2f69e202c8d3cc224a200c-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10619\" title=\"20220910_183204(1)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/6a00d834525a2f69e202c8d3cc224a200c-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/6a00d834525a2f69e202c8d3cc224a200c-500wi-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: See the comments section for that snazzy outfit &#8211; Kariba suit &#8211; I am wearing! Yup. On a Friday, Feb 17th, 1978. At a party in my flat on Bonito Crescent, Mandeville Jamaica. She crashed it. The first picture is about a year later at a spot called Lover&#8217;s Leap on the south coast [&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-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","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=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10623,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/10623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}