{"id":261,"date":"2009-10-11T08:35:31","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T14:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myheroesathome.com\/blog\/?p=261"},"modified":"2009-10-11T08:35:31","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T14:35:31","slug":"the-dreadful-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myheroesathome.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/the-dreadful-goodbye\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dreadful Goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saying goodbye to my husband before he leaves is probably the hardest moment of deployment for me.<span> <\/span>I drive to the base with an upset stomach and a lump in my throat choking back the tears.<span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Nothing can really make it better, but one of Mike\u2019s former captions did share some good advice when Mike was leaving for his 2<sup>nd<\/sup> deployment.<span> <\/span>He said when he has to leave him and his wife agreed to not let the goodbye drag on.<span> <\/span>She simply drops him off and heads home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">We have found this to be the best approach.<span> <\/span>It doesn\u2019t help Mike if I\u2019m sticking around because he usually is coordinating the movement and his mind is focused on keeping everything on schedule.<span> <\/span>For me it just makes saying goodbye worse because the lump in my throat just continues to grow bigger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">So while it is never easy, at least we know what works best for us and what approach we prefer without hurting each others feelings.<span> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saying goodbye to my husband before he leaves is probably the hardest moment of deployment for me. I drive to the base with an upset stomach and a lump in my throat choking back the tears. Nothing can really make it better, but one of Mike\u2019s former captions did share some good advice when Mike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[39,141],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-relationship-changes","tag-deployment","tag-saying-goodbye"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myheroesathome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myheroesathome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myheroesathome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myheroesathome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myheroesathome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myheroesathome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myheroesathome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myheroesathome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myheroesathome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}