{"id":270,"date":"2026-08-14T17:24:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T17:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fordrealtyco.net\/blog\/?p=270"},"modified":"2026-08-14T17:24:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T17:24:27","slug":"jerry-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fordrealtyco.net\/blog\/?p=270","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fordrealtyco.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/fordrealtyco.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fordrealtyco.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/fordrealtyco.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/fordrealtyco.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/fordrealtyco.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-400x300.png 400w, https:\/\/fordrealtyco.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image.png 1261w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We committed a portion of a friend&#8217;s ashes to the sea this weekend. it was a great weekend with special friends. Redge Swing did the eulogy and did a good job.<br><br>I have never even considered cremation but all in all it is a fairly efficient means of returning this body to its original dust. The words in our liturgy, Episcopal, &#8220;ashes to ashes and dust to dust&#8221; now have more meaning to me.&nbsp;Losing Jerry, especially as closely behind his wife Butchie, has made all of us a lot more cognizant of the temporal nature of this life. Thanks goodness I have the assurance of God&#8217;s grace and Jesus&#8217; promise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">it was a cold day in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We committed a portion of a friend&#8217;s ashes to the sea this weekend. it was a great weekend with special friends. Redge Swing did the eulogy and did a good job. I have never even considered cremation but all in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fordrealtyco.net\/blog\/?p=270\">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":[41,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fordrealtyco.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fordrealtyco.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fordrealtyco.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordrealtyco.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordrealtyco.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fordrealtyco.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/fordrealtyco.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fordrealtyco.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordrealtyco.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordrealtyco.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}