{"id":131,"date":"2006-12-07T09:10:50","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T14:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/07\/an-unhappy-ending\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:09:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:09:51","slug":"an-unhappy-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/07\/an-unhappy-ending\/","title":{"rendered":"An Unhappy Ending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started following the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/16089354\/\">story of the Kim family<\/a> last week before it hit the news.\u00a0 At that point they were all still missing.\u00a0 I tuned into the search page everyday and read blogs of friends of the family.\u00a0 Then the good news that the mom and girls were found.\u00a0 Unbelieveable.\u00a0 There was hope.\u00a0 But the dad was still lost and as the each day passed it was looking less likely that he would be found alive.\u00a0 And then yesterday- they found his body a mile from the car.\u00a0 One mile.\u00a0 But he had traveled 8 miles.\u00a0 He was on his way back to them.\u00a0 It breaks my heart.\u00a0 And made me hug my kiddos a little tighter last night.\u00a0 Especially my little one who was curled up in a chair- head burning from a fever.\u00a0 As hard as that little guy can be I would do anything for him- life would not be the same without him.<\/p>\n<p>So, slow down- take the time to appreciate what you have.\u00a0 How quickly things can change.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2009-12-6141617.html\">Tribute to James\u00a0 Kim<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started following the story of the Kim family last week before it hit the news.\u00a0 At that point they were all still missing.\u00a0 I tuned into the search page everyday and read blogs of friends of the family.\u00a0 Then the good news that the mom and girls were found.\u00a0 Unbelieveable.\u00a0 There was hope.\u00a0 But the dad was still lost and as the each day passed it was looking less likely that he would be found alive.\u00a0 And then yesterday- they found his body a mile from the car.\u00a0 One mile.\u00a0 But he had traveled 8 miles.\u00a0 He was on his way back to them.\u00a0 It breaks my heart.\u00a0 And made me hug my kiddos a little tighter last night.\u00a0 Especially my little one who was curled up in a chair- head burning from a fever.\u00a0 As hard as that little guy can be I would do anything for him- life would not be the same without him. So, slow down- take the time to appreciate what you have.\u00a0 How quickly things can change. Tribute to James\u00a0 Kim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20860,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/20860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}