{"id":40292,"date":"2014-03-12T12:27:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T16:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=40292"},"modified":"2014-03-12T12:27:19","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T16:27:19","slug":"marine-writes-his-own-obit-leaves-em-laughin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40292","title":{"rendered":"Marine writes his own obit, leaves &#8217;em laughin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/mar\/12\/last-laugh-marine-vet-fires-jokes-obituary\/\">The Washington Times<\/a> reports that Korean War Marine veteran, Walter George Bruhl Jr., celebrating his own death, wrote his own obituary. Hillarity ensued;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A sampling of his obituary: \u201cWalt was preceded in death by his tonsils and adenoids in 1935, a spinal disc in 19745, a large piece of his thyroid gland in 1988 and his prostate on March 27th 2000,\u201d he wrote. He also made fun of his wife\u2019s love of fur by saying she will now be able \u201cto purchases the mink coat which he had always refused her because he believed only minks should wear mink\u201d \u2014 and then mocked his viewing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will be no viewing since his wife refuses to honor his request to have him standing in the corner of the room with a glass of Jack Daniels in his hand so that he would appear natural to visitors&#8230;\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a screen shot of the entire obituary from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/pics\/comments\/201xze\/in_honor_of_my_fantastic_grandfather_who_passed\/\">Reddit<\/a> posted by one of his four grandchildren;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=40293\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40293\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Bruhl-Obit-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bruhl Obit\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Bruhl-Obit-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Bruhl-Obit-256x333.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times reports that Korean War Marine veteran, Walter George Bruhl Jr., celebrating his own &hellip; <a title=\"Marine writes his own obit, leaves &#8217;em laughin&#8217;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40292\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marine writes his own obit, leaves &#8217;em laughin&#8217;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-skies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}