{"id":413,"date":"2018-09-04T20:49:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T20:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/?p=413"},"modified":"2018-09-04T20:51:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T20:51:01","slug":"obituary-for-a-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/?p=413","title":{"rendered":"Obituary for a friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a heavy heart I have only recently learned of the passing of Rick Gildersleeve &#8211; descendant of Philip Gildersleeve (foreman for the building of the CONNECTICUT).\u00a0 Rick and I corresponded on numerous occasions and we would constantly try to make plans to meet up again for lunch but life kept interrupting.\u00a0 I was honoured to attend his lecture on the Gildersleeve shipbuilding era which he gave for the Portland Hist. Soc. but held in the town library &#8211; see the relevant <a href=\"https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/?p=229\">post below<\/a>.\u00a0 Here is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legacy.com\/obituaries\/middletownpress\/obituary.aspx?n=richard-r-gildersleeve&amp;pid=188692004&amp;\">link to his obituary<\/a>.\u00a0 So is cut short another link to our common past&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a heavy heart I have only recently learned of the passing of Rick Gildersleeve &#8211; descendant of Philip Gildersleeve (foreman for the building of the CONNECTICUT).\u00a0 Rick and I corresponded on numerous occasions and we would constantly try to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/?p=413\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3601,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3601"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}