{"id":883,"date":"2026-10-31T21:12:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T21:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/?p=883"},"modified":"2026-10-31T21:12:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T21:12:47","slug":"memorial-page-and-goodbye-to-beautiful-ilona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/31\/memorial-page-and-goodbye-to-beautiful-ilona\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Page and Goodbye to Beautiful Ilona"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_4081-rotated.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-884\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.75;width:817px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_4081-rotated.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_4081-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This picture of Ilona from days before her passing was taken by her friend Pat and shared with me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s one from October 1st, during my final visit with her.  She was happy and ready to say goodbye to all her loved ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_3593-rotated.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-885\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_3593-rotated.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_3593-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Please feel free to add stories, comments, and pictures to this post to honor Ilona, who left this world in peace and on her own terms on October 2nd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This picture of Ilona from days before her passing was taken by her friend Pat and shared with me. Here&#8217;s one from October 1st, during my final visit with her. She was happy and ready to say goodbye to all her loved ones. Please feel free to add stories, comments, and pictures to this post &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/31\/memorial-page-and-goodbye-to-beautiful-ilona\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Memorial Page and Goodbye to Beautiful Ilona&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}