{"id":1075,"date":"2009-07-07T10:44:42","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T10:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/theirbadmother\/2009\/07\/miles-to-go-before-i-sleep.html"},"modified":"2009-07-07T10:44:42","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T10:44:42","slug":"miles-to-go-before-i-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/theirbadmother\/2009\/07\/miles-to-go-before-i-sleep.html","title":{"rendered":"Miles To Go Before I Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is my grandfather&#8217;s funeral. Today I set aside the hum and buzz and happy thrill of traveling with my children and with dear friends and take a moment to say goodbye to Grandpa. Who I loved. Who I will miss.<\/p>\n<p>Today will be hard. I&#8217;ve spent the last half hour trying to explain to Emilia that I&#8217;ll be leaving her with her Aunty Tanis and Aunty Katie for a few hours later today, so that I can say goodbye to my Grandpa, but she doesn&#8217;t understand, and wants to come, and it&#8217;s hard, so hard, because I don&#8217;t want her to see me that sad. Which, maybe, is wrong, but still. I don&#8217;t want her to share my sadness. I want today to be happy for her, and for Jasper.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;ll do this part of the journey alone. As I must.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is my grandfather&#8217;s funeral. Today I set aside the hum and buzz and happy thrill of traveling with my children and with dear friends and take a moment to say goodbye to Grandpa. Who I loved. Who I will miss. Today will be hard. 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