{"id":827,"date":"2007-11-21T08:58:33","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T08:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/21\/remembering-renee\/"},"modified":"2015-03-21T13:21:37","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T13:21:37","slug":"remembering-renee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=827","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Ren\u00e9e"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/Renee-Rich-1983-x650.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5085\" src=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/Renee-Rich-1983-x650.jpg\" alt=\"Renee Rich 1983 x650\" width=\"650\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/Renee-Rich-1983-x650.jpg 650w, https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/Renee-Rich-1983-x650-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I met Ren\u00e9e Rich by the pool at the Sportsmen&#8217;s Lodge in Studio City in 1982.<\/p>\n<p>We got together a year later and married in England in 1984. We lived in Toronto, Los Angeles, Boise, and West Palm Beach.<\/p>\n<p>We were divorced one April in Franklin, Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, I would phone her on our wedding anniversary and we&#8217;d laugh because it was the date Franklin Delano Roosevelt said would &#8220;live in infamy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ren\u00e9e died last Christmas day, an angel flying too close to the ground. She is buried in Memphis near her father, Charlie.<\/p>\n<p>Today was her birthday.<\/p>\n<p>I loved her, and sometimes she loved me.<\/p>\n<p>I can still hear her laugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met Ren\u00e9e Rich by the pool at the Sportsmen&#8217;s Lodge in Studio City in 1982. We got together a year later and married in England in 1984. We lived in Toronto, Los Angeles, Boise, and West Palm Beach. We &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=827\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1009],"class_list":["post-827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-renee-rich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5087,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions\/5087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}