{"id":225,"date":"2007-06-03T07:17:09","date_gmt":"2007-06-03T16:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/?p=225"},"modified":"2007-06-03T07:17:09","modified_gmt":"2007-06-03T16:17:09","slug":"remembering-a-good-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/2007\/06\/03\/remembering-a-good-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering A Good Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Don Spitler&#8217;s birthday.  Or would have been. One year ago this week Don&#8217;s  airplane crashed 3 miles short of the Northway Airport.  I believe he died doing something he loved doing.  Being out in nature and challenging himself with yet another goal, flying his own airplane.<\/p>\n<p>Don was a goal setter who accomplished much in his life time.  He loved hunting, fishing, staying fit.  He was bright, funny and loved his family very much.  I don&#8217;t have a picture on my computer of Don, but I do want to share some photos from last year&#8217;s memorial of family and people who considered him a good friend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/files\/2007\/06\/don7-01.jpg\" title=\"don7-01.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/files\/2007\/06\/don7-01.jpg\" title=\"don7-01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/files\/2007\/06\/don7-01.jpg\" alt=\"don7-01.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/files\/2007\/06\/don5-01.jpg\" title=\"don5-01.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/files\/2007\/06\/don5-01.jpg\" title=\"don5-01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/files\/2007\/06\/don5-01.jpg\" alt=\"don5-01.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/files\/2007\/06\/don1-01.jpg\" title=\"don1-01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/files\/2007\/06\/don1-01.jpg\" alt=\"don1-01.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/files\/2007\/06\/don2-01.jpg\" title=\"don2-01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/files\/2007\/06\/don2-01.jpg\" alt=\"don2-01.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/files\/2007\/06\/don10-01.jpg\" title=\"don10-01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/files\/2007\/06\/don10-01.jpg\" alt=\"don10-01.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/files\/2007\/06\/don11-01.jpg\" title=\"don11-01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/files\/2007\/06\/don11-01.jpg\" alt=\"don11-01.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/files\/2007\/06\/don9-01.jpg\" title=\"don9-01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/files\/2007\/06\/don9-01.jpg\" alt=\"don9-01.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/files\/2007\/06\/don6-01.jpg\" title=\"don6-01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/files\/2007\/06\/don6-01.jpg\" alt=\"don6-01.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/files\/2007\/06\/don8-01.jpg\" title=\"don8-01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/files\/2007\/06\/don8-01.jpg\" alt=\"don8-01.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">As I took an early morning walk with Rudy,  and watched the clouds hugging the mountain side,  smelling the freshness of new blooms, I can&#8217;t help but think Don would enjoy a morning like this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Don Spitler&#8217;s birthday. Or would have been. One year ago this week Don&#8217;s airplane crashed 3 miles short of the Northway Airport. I believe he died doing something he loved doing. Being out in nature and challenging himself with yet another goal, flying his own airplane. Don was a goal setter who accomplished [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}