{"id":9550,"date":"2026-05-18T21:24:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=9550"},"modified":"2026-05-18T21:24:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:24:01","slug":"with-heavy-hearts-we-announce-the-passing-of-a-legend-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=9550","title":{"rendered":"With Heavy Hearts, We Announce the Passing of a Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I remember the weight of Deborah\u2019s hand in mine, growing lighter as her breathing slowed, each exhale a goodbye to the life she had fought so fiercely to keep. In that small, quiet room, the machines hummed, but her battle was finally over. I whispered that it was all right to let go, even though every part of me wanted to scream for her to stay.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now, I watch Hugo and Eloise navigate a world that no longer has their mother in it, and I see Deborah in every brave smile they force, every tear they try to hide. I tell them their mum did not lose; she endured. She turned pain into purpose, fear into fierce love. I brought her into this world and held her as she left it, and in that circle of life and loss, I found a different kind of strength: to keep her story alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I remember the weight of Deborah\u2019s hand in mine, growing lighter as her breathing slowed, each exhale a goodbye to the life she had fought so fiercely to keep. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9552,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9550\/revisions\/9552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}