{"id":22736,"date":"2016-11-23T11:48:46","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T16:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=22736"},"modified":"2016-11-23T11:48:46","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T16:48:46","slug":"please-listen-to-a-polka-and-eat-some-kielbasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/23\/please-listen-to-a-polka-and-eat-some-kielbasa\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Please listen to a polka and eat some kielbasa&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve told you before, I&#8217;m addicted to the obituary pages of newspapers, and not just so I can read summations of the lives of the rich and famous. I&#8217;ve always been moved by the passing of regular folks, too, and sometimes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2013\/02\/17\/an-argument-in-favor-of-writing-ones-own-obituary\/\">certain write-ups stand out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And so, here&#8217;s your uplifting obituary of the day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/HenryFrankKuleszaObituary.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/HenryFrankKuleszaObituary-70x300.jpeg\" alt=\"henryfrankkuleszaobituary\" width=\"70\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-22737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/HenryFrankKuleszaObituary-70x300.jpeg 70w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/HenryFrankKuleszaObituary-768x3287.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/HenryFrankKuleszaObituary-239x1024.jpeg 239w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/HenryFrankKuleszaObituary.jpeg 1226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 70px) 100vw, 70px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I regret never having met Henry Frank Kulesza.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d have liked to listen to polka and eaten some kielbasa with him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve told you before, I&#8217;m addicted to the obituary pages of newspapers, and not just so I can read summations of the lives of the rich and famous. I&#8217;ve always been moved by the passing of regular folks, too, and sometimes, certain write-ups stand out. And so, here&#8217;s your uplifting obituary of the day. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[85],"class_list":["post-22736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22736"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22742,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22736\/revisions\/22742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}