{"id":3517,"date":"2010-01-11T21:22:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T02:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=3517"},"modified":"2018-10-08T05:26:44","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T00:26:44","slug":"r-i-p-tim-klippenstein-1946-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/r-i-p-tim-klippenstein-1946-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Tim Klippenstein (1946-2010)&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3518\" title=\"Tim_Klippenstein_1946-2010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tim_Klippenstein_1946-2010.jpg\" alt=\"Tim_Klippenstein_1946-2010\" width=\"437\" height=\"494\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><em>Winnipeg, Canada<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">My cousin Tim was laid to rest today\u2026<\/span> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>I hardly knew you, Tim. But I\u2019m very glad I attended your funeral. I learned more about you in an hour than I had known since you married my cousin, Ruth Koop, 36 years ago. I met your two handsome and well-spoken adult sons (for the first time)\u2026 and I listened carefully, with tears in my eyes, as one person after another stepped up to the microphone to share their recollections of you.<\/p>\n<p>In case you weren\u2019t listening in, they described you as \u201cone of the most decent people you could ever know,\u201d (that was your boss, by the way); as wise, rational, vital, fair, modest, understated, decent, knowledgeable, ethical, humble, good-natured, energetic, gentle, and loving; and as a brilliant thinker with a quick wit, as someone always on the side of the underdog, as someone perpetually giving and generous with your time, as a lifelong conservationist (choosing walking or cycling over driving, even in our brutal climate), as a peace-maker, as a tireless volunteer and champion of social justice, and as a man of great integrity\u2014and few words.<\/p>\n<p>I really do wish I had known you better, Tim.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><em>Rest in peace\u2026<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg, Canada My cousin Tim was laid to rest today\u2026 I hardly knew you, Tim. But I\u2019m very glad I attended your funeral. I learned more about you in an hour than I had known since you married my cousin, Ruth Koop, 36 years ago. I met your two handsome and well-spoken adult sons (for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10,11,12,14,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517"}],"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=3517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16105,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions\/16105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}