{"id":21478,"date":"2009-02-12T21:35:17","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T05:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=915"},"modified":"2016-09-11T14:22:03","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T11:22:03","slug":"sad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/sad-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Sad News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bob Skeldin<\/a>g is one of my favourite RVing bloggers. Like me, he’s a little on the young side for full-timing, and believes in doing things his own way. He hit the road in a tiny home-made RV pulled by four draft horses.<\/p>\n

His dream was cut short abruptly on February 10th when he was struck from behind<\/a> by an 18 wheeler cresting a hill. Two of Bob’s horses were killed, two are being cared for by a local veterinarian, Bob is in critical care in hospital, and his RV has been totaled.<\/p>\n

I don’t know if Bob’s story is over or if this incident will just be a chapter of his own great big adventure, but I am sad tonight. I am thinking of a kindred soul who dreamt of a simpler life and a slower pace and whose dream was crushed by the realities of the modern world. I wish him a speedy recovery of both body and soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bob Skelding is one of my favourite RVing bloggers. Like me, he’s a little on the young side for full-timing, and believes in doing things his own way. He hit the road in a tiny home-made RV pulled by four draft horses. His dream was cut short abruptly on February 10th when he was struck […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-rving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}