{"id":1299,"date":"2023-01-23T10:52:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T19:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2023-01-23T10:52:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T19:52:42","slug":"the-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/?p=1299","title":{"rendered":"The Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Chapter Eleven in \u201cDecades with the Squad,\u201d by my late father, William Palmer Jervey, Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Blogger\u2019s note:&nbsp; The Muses are out getting their nails done, apparently, so I figured today is a good day to share something from my Pa, whom I credit as the source for both my writing and my acting chops.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This call involved three squad members, myself and a young couple (married, by George!) who had only very recently joined. What we had was a D.O.A. An elderly person who expired at home after an illness. At the request of the family, we took the remains to a funeral home in the Richmond area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The home was a large imposing structure with two or three floors, I forget which. Little did I realize we were about to take a tour. What a tour we took! Business must have been good, for the place was packed with the deceased. In searching for a place to put our passenger, we walked down every hall, looked in every room on every floor. I have never seen so many dead people in my life. Pale in complexion, and in some instances grotesque in posture, the continuing tableau was taking a toll on our nerves, though our guide was as cool as a cucumber. Fortunately, before we reached the snapping point, a spot was found, and we departed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The young couple showed good grit and stayed with the squad. They agreed, however, that this was indeed a \u201cbaptism by fire.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter Eleven in \u201cDecades with the Squad,\u201d by my late father, William Palmer Jervey, Jr. Blogger\u2019s note:&nbsp; The Muses are out getting their nails done, apparently, so I figured today is a good day to share something from my Pa, whom I credit as the source for both my writing and my acting chops. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[421],"tags":[472,537,424],"class_list":["post-1299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decades-with-the-squad","tag-first-responders","tag-memoirs","tag-rescue-squad"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1300,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions\/1300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}