{"id":1923,"date":"2009-07-05T20:31:54","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T01:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=1923"},"modified":"2018-10-30T02:02:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T21:02:10","slug":"honouring-the-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/honouring-the-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Honouring The Man!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pinawa, Manitoba<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve spent the past few days with Evelin and my entire Peters family at the Wilderness Edge<\/a> resort (in Pinawa, on the Winnipeg River) participating in a get-away weekend in honour of my 89-year-old father, our patriarch John Jacob Peters<\/a>. With my brother Phil<\/a> and his clan here from Germany, this provided the first opportunity in several years for us all to be together in one place.<\/p>\n

Highlights of the weekend have been an incredible audio-visual presentation my brother Jim assembled from hundreds of old family photographs he had scanned, a well-written life-history presented by Doreen, Dad\u2019s wife (who also took care of all weekend arrangements\u2014thanks!), a musical tribute by brother Phil et al, and the open sharing and good fellowship that takes place when a geographically dispersed family comes together for some quality time. The weather cooperated (for the most part) for the outdoor activities (a hay ride, canoeing, biking, swimming, evening camp-fires) and it seems a good time was had by all. Life is good\u2026<\/p>\n

Family photos (from those that surfaced on the weekend): the ship Dad came to Canada on from Russia in 1925; a hand-coloured \u201cJohn the lumberjack\u201d on Vancouver Island (serving as a Conscientious Objector<\/a> during World War II); our family stuffed into a Heinkel Kabine<\/a>\u00a0(Frankfurt, 1957); <\/em>brother Jim and I, 1958; <\/em> Dad enjoying the mountain view (Swiss Alps, c. 1978); and an informal family photo here in Pinawa yesterday. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pinawa, Manitoba I\u2019ve spent the past few days with Evelin and my entire Peters family at the Wilderness Edge resort (in Pinawa, on the Winnipeg River) participating in a get-away weekend in honour of my 89-year-old father, our patriarch John Jacob Peters. With my brother Phil and his clan here from Germany, this provided the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,7,10,11,17,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16353,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions\/16353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}