{"id":4742,"date":"2017-04-16T09:32:27","date_gmt":"2017-04-16T14:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=4742"},"modified":"2017-04-16T14:22:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T19:22:50","slug":"end-of-an-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=4742","title":{"rendered":"End of an era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_4744\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/Baby-photos_0024.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4744\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/Baby-photos_0024-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"Joyce 1954\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4744\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Baby-photos_0024-300x228.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Baby-photos_0024-1024x779.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4744\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joyce 1954<\/p><\/div><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">My father, Joyce Pipkin, passed away earlier this week. He was 93. He definitely had a full life &#8211; captain of the Arkansas Razorbacks football team, NFL player, Navy underwater demolition team (precursor to the SEALS), musician, and Reynolds Metals exec. He and my mom divorced when I was just a baby, so I never really knew him very well, but he was a card and will be missed. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">We also lost my Aunt Jo this week, another woman full of life. She was 85. She always had a smart-alec crack and quick smile. She used to let me come ride her horse, Cheetah, when I was young. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">John is in Suriname on a TDY, so I&#8217;ve had the house to myself this four-day weekend. I&#8217;ve been scanning, organizing, and backing up thousands of old photos &#8211; it feels great to finally tackle this project! And it&#8217;s been so fun coming across old photos &#8211; lots of memories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My father, Joyce Pipkin, passed away earlier this week. He was 93. He definitely had a full life &#8211; captain of the Arkansas Razorbacks football team, NFL player, Navy underwater demolition team (precursor to the SEALS), musician, and Reynolds Metals exec. He and my mom divorced when I was just a baby, so I never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4742"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4746,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742\/revisions\/4746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}