{"id":9675,"date":"2010-06-28T04:01:51","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T02:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philipbloom.net\/?p=9675"},"modified":"2010-06-28T19:13:05","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T17:13:05","slug":"end-of-an-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/end-of-an-era\/","title":{"rendered":"End of an era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is not about gear, not about films, not about learning&#8230;purely a post about something profoundly sad that happened to me today. My beloved Grandma Sarah Bloom passed away after a short illness. My Nana was very special to me, as were all my grandparents. She was my last surviving grandparent and I am devastated that she is gone. They were part of an era who went through so much, specifically World War II.<\/p>\n<p>She was a wonderful woman who I obviously knew all my life. I wish I was back home with my dad right now to give him a big hug as I know he is feeling utterly empty. <\/p>\n<p>With all of my grandparents now passed away it really feels like a massive part of my life has gone. I miss them all so much and like everyone at times like these wish I had spent more time with them, but as our lives get busier we find it harder and harder to see the ones we care about, never a good thing. I knew when my dad phoned me at 10pm his time what he was going to say. We have expecting this for a while but it is never the less deeply shocking when it actually happens. She lived a full life all the way to 90 and she went peacefully so I cannot be sad about that, just the end of an era.<\/p>\n<p>I have wonderful memories of my Nana and will remember her will such love for the rest of my life. Can&#8217;t believe she is gone. Treasure your family and friends and savour every moment with them.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks so much for the wonderful comments below. Means a lot to me and I will make sure Dad reads them too, He will be touched.<\/p>\n<p>This is her with my dad on her last birthday in April this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.philipbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_0682.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[9675]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9676\" title=\"IMG_0682\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.philipbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_0682-670x446.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_0682-670x446.jpg 670w, https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_0682-310x206.jpg 310w, https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_0682.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.philipbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_0664.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[9675]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9677\" title=\"IMG_0664\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.philipbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_0664-670x446.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_0664-670x446.jpg 670w, https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_0664-310x206.jpg 310w, https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_0664.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/a>and with my beautiful nephew and niece.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.philipbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/image.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[9675]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9678\" title=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.philipbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/image.jpg 640w, https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/image-310x206.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}