(originally posted March 5th, 2005)<\/p>\n
My wife\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s father passed away today; his name was Clyde. Because of her family dynamics, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t say that I knew Clyde all that well. Matter of fact, in 10 years I never addressed him by name in any way; I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sure what to call him, so we just talked. As explanation of what I mean by odd family dynamics, my wife didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how old her father was until a month ago, when he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d already been in the hospital for three weeks or so.<\/p>\n
I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have many tales to tell about Clyde, though I could probably go on forever about the few I do have. Instead, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to say that this was a man of contradictions. On one hand, he was a man of personal integrity, and that got him many friends. On the other, he was kind of a player when it came to women, and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to say about that. He was sort of an enigma, even to my wife; she was never sure when he was telling the truth, or at least the whole story, until something came to pass. Sometimes he came to town and we wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know it until he was back home; other times, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d call and ask if he could stay with us, and he was always welcome.<\/p>\n
My brief word on Clyde is that he always treated me right; he was always kind and gracious to me. He was courteous to my parents, and was there for me when my dad passed. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always been there for my wife when she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s needed him, and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all I needed to know about the man. He wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t perfect, but he was a good man when it counted. The world is a lesser place today without his presence. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(originally posted March 5th, 2005) My wife\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s father passed away today; his name was Clyde. Because of her family dynamics, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t say that I knew Clyde all that well. Matter of fact, in 10 years I never addressed him by name in any way; I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sure what to call him, so we just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1077],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-tribute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}