{"id":3810,"date":"2008-09-26T04:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3810"},"modified":"2025-09-30T00:46:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T00:46:19","slug":"third-anniversary-of-my-brother-pauls-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3810","title":{"rendered":"Third anniversary of my brother Paul&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At 47. After leading a &#8220;noble life&#8221; (my brother Jim&#8217;s phrase)&nbsp;filled with illness. Here&#8217;s the posting I put up about him a few days after he died. I had just started my chemotherapy a few days earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2005\/10\/paul_faranda_19.html\"><font color=\"#800080\"><strong>Tom Faranda&#8217;s Folly: Paul Faranda, 1958-2005<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And here&#8217;s a picture I&#8217;ve posted before, of Paul with Brigid and&nbsp;I when he came to visit us in 1980, when we lived on Grand Cayman.&nbsp;A little&nbsp;blurry, but&nbsp;I love this picture!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"499\" height=\"351\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/6a00d834525a2f69e2010534d392a7970c-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/6a00d834525a2f69e2010534d392a7970c-500wi.jpg 499w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/6a00d834525a2f69e2010534d392a7970c-500wi-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2010534cbd1b1970b-pi\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the way, Brigid points out that we still have the cooler, and it hasn&#8217;t changed &#8220;but we have&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 47. After leading a &#8220;noble life&#8221; (my brother Jim&#8217;s phrase)&nbsp;filled with illness. Here&#8217;s the posting I put up about him a few days after he died. I had just started my chemotherapy a few days earlier. Tom Faranda&#8217;s Folly: Paul Faranda, 1958-2005 And here&#8217;s a picture I&#8217;ve posted before, of Paul with Brigid and&nbsp;I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810","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=3810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14014,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810\/revisions\/14014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}