{"id":330,"date":"2022-08-31T03:06:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T03:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.numberourdays.org\/?p=330"},"modified":"2022-12-27T18:15:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T10:15:24","slug":"how-im-grieving-my-grandfathers-suicide-by-jaclyn-s-parrish-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/?p=330","title":{"rendered":"How I\u2019m Grieving My Grandfather\u2019s Suicide by Jaclyn S. Parrish (2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;On May 11, 2018, my grandfather killed himself. He\u2019d been a pastor, a seminary professor, a brilliant preacher, a published author. But at 85, he faced his worst fear: dementia. The darkness he\u2019d watched swallow so many of his old friends was coming for him. I don\u2019t think we\u2019ll ever know if it was his fear of the disease, or the disease, that made the final decision. Perhaps it was some awful tangle of both. But that summer afternoon, he decided he couldn\u2019t weather the storm he saw coming, and he left us [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/grieving-my-grandfather-suicide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8230;<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;On May 11, 2018, my grandfather killed himself. He\u2019d been a pastor, a seminary professor, a brilliant preacher, a published author. But at 85, he faced his worst fear: dementia. The darkness he\u2019d watched swallow so many of his old friends was coming for him. I don\u2019t think we\u2019ll ever know if it was his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80,82],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-number-our-days","tag-numberourdays"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8048,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/8048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}