{"id":7109,"date":"2018-06-17T13:58:06","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T17:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/?p=7109"},"modified":"2018-06-17T14:05:52","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T18:05:52","slug":"len-duckman-died-55-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/?p=7109","title":{"rendered":"Len Duckman Died 55 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/?attachment_id=7111\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7111\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7111\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/LD_CD-Stones-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/LD_CD-Stones-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/LD_CD-Stones-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/LD_CD-Stones-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/LD_CD-Stones-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My Father died on Father&#8217;s day June 16, 1963. I was 7 when we learned he was sick and 15 when he died. Hard to celebrate and difficult to discuss.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/?attachment_id=7112\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7112\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7112\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/LEN_Soldier-1-1024x798.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/LEN_Soldier-1-1024x798.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/LEN_Soldier-1-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/LEN_Soldier-1-768x598.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/LEN_Soldier-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He died before he was supposed to, only 54. He wouldn&#8217;t talk to me about it, except to say he was dying from Leukemia. \u00a0That&#8217;s the way it was in 1963.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/?attachment_id=7110\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7110\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7110\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Candle-1-1024x731.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Candle-1-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Candle-1-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Candle-1-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Candle-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I lit a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yahrzeit_candle\">yahrzeit candle<\/a> for him. I know no one else did. The family had long since stopped being a family. So it goes. So it goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Father died on Father&#8217;s day June 16, 1963. I was 7 when we learned he was sick and 15 when he died. Hard to celebrate and difficult to discuss. He died before he was supposed to, only 54. He wouldn&#8217;t talk to me about it, except to say he was dying from Leukemia. \u00a0That&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/?p=7109\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Len Duckman Died 55 Years Ago&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,141,13,15,17,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging-2","category-aging","category-family","category-personal","category-photography","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7109"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7115,"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7109\/revisions\/7115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}