{"id":8236,"date":"2026-10-29T18:04:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T18:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bzerbros.fun\/?p=8236"},"modified":"2026-10-29T18:04:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T18:04:22","slug":"for-the-first-time-since-i-had-arrived-at-willow-creek-the-woman-standing-in-front-of-me-looked-more-frightened-than-i-felt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bzerbros.fun\/?p=8236","title":{"rendered":"For the first time since I had arrived at Willow Creek, the woman standing in front of me looked more frightened than I felt."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr. Reyes slowly lowered my chart. \u201cMrs. Dunmore,\u201d she whispered, \u201cplease tell me something. Were you married to Franklin Dunmore?\u201d I looked at the photograph on my nightstand. Frank was smiling in it, wearing the navy suit he had bought for our thirtieth wedding anniversary. His hair had turned silver by then, but his eyes were still as warm as the day I first met him. \u201cYes,\u201d I answered. \u201cFor fifty-two years.\u201d Dr. Reyes pulled the chair beside my bed closer and sat down. \u201cDid he ever tell you about a nursing home he helped build?\u201d I stared at her. \u201cFrank helped build many things during his life. He was an architect. He designed schools, hospitals, and public buildings. But he never told me he built this place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Reyes slowly lowered my chart. \u201cMrs. Dunmore,\u201d she whispered, \u201cplease tell me something. Were you married to Franklin Dunmore?\u201d I looked at the photograph on my&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8237,"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8236\/revisions\/8237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}