{"id":108392,"date":"2025-01-20T08:43:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T01:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/?p=108392"},"modified":"2025-01-20T08:43:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T01:43:03","slug":"at-79-i-adopted-my-grandsons-parrot-to-keep-his-memory-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/at-79-i-adopted-my-grandsons-parrot-to-keep-his-memory-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"At 79, I Adopted My Grandson&rsquo;s Parrot To Keep His Memory Alive."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style='\"font-size:'>When my grandson passed away at just 21, it left a hole in all our hearts. He was so full of life, with a deep love for animals\u2014especially his parrot, Charlie. That bird was his pride and joy, always sitting on his shoulder or chirping happily when they were together.<br>\n<span style='\"font-size:'><img fetchpriority='\"high\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"aligncenter' size-full wp-image-108395 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/justmetalking.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2025%5C/01%5C/AT-79-I-ADOPTED-MY-GRANDSONS-PARROT-TO-KEEP-HIS-MEMORY-ALIVE.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"1080\"' height='\"1350\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AT-79-I-ADOPTED-MY-GRANDSONS-PARROT-TO-KEEP-HIS-MEMORY-ALIVE.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>After he was gone, his mother wasn\u2019t sure she could keep Charlie. She loved him but didn\u2019t know if she was ready for the responsibility. I could see how much it hurt her to think about it, so I offered to take Charlie. \u201cLet me care for him,\u201d I said. \u201cHe\u2019s a part of him we can still hold on to.\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Now, Charlie is with me, brightening my days with his chatter and playful antics. He\u2019s a constant reminder of the joy my grandson brought into the world. At 79, I never expected to bond so deeply with a parrot, but Charlie has become my companion, my connection to the grandson I miss so dearly, and a little piece of him that lives on.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my grandson passed away at just 21, it left a hole in all our hearts. He was so full of life, with a deep love for animals\u2014especially his parrot, Charlie. That bird was his pride and joy, always sitting on his shoulder or chirping happily when they were together. After he was gone, his\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":108395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[855],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-108392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-story"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AT-79-I-ADOPTED-MY-GRANDSONS-PARROT-TO-KEEP-HIS-MEMORY-ALIVE.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108396,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108392\/revisions\/108396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p></span></p></span></span></p>