{"id":4331,"date":"2006-10-27T23:03:54","date_gmt":"2006-10-27T23:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4331"},"modified":"2025-09-26T04:09:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T04:09:58","slug":"a_qick_visit_wi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4331","title":{"rendered":"A quick visit with the Hardys &#8211; friends from the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My friend Tom Hardy contacted me a few weeks ago. He and his wife Mabvuto were going to pass through New York &#8211; staying at the Newark airport Sheraton for one night &#8211; so I arranged to meet up with them for a couple of hours Friday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom and his wife Judy were good friends of ours, going way back to my two years in Jamaica from 1977 to 1979. Tom was teaching in the same school I was teaching in (and played rugby with me in the Mandeville rugby club) , and Judy was a resident physician in the Mandeville public hospital. Judy was Brigid&#8217;s maid of honor when we got married (June 23, 1979) and Tom &#8220;gave the bride away.&#8221; We stayed in touch after that, with occasional visits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Judy died tragically in 1998, and a few years ago Tom met Mabvuto (African Princess) on one of his frequent visits to Africa (the publishing company he works for does a great deal of work there &#8211; textbooks mostly). They got married about four years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, I met up with them Friday, and we caught up on our sons (Tom also has two, in their early 20&#8217;s) and I attempted to explain to them the fine points of baseball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are a couple of pictures:<\/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\/2006\/10\/hardys_in_newarksheraton102606_007_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10461\" title=\"Hardys_in_newarksheraton102606_007_1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/hardys_in_newarksheraton102606_007_1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/hardys_in_newarksheraton102606_007_1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/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\/2006\/10\/hardys_in_newarksheraton102606_006.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10460\" title=\"Hardys_in_newarksheraton102606_006\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/hardys_in_newarksheraton102606_006.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/hardys_in_newarksheraton102606_006-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Tom Hardy contacted me a few weeks ago. He and his wife Mabvuto were going to pass through New York &#8211; staying at the Newark airport Sheraton for one night &#8211; so I arranged to meet up with them for a couple of hours Friday evening. Tom and his wife Judy were good [&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-4331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331","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=4331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10462,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions\/10462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}