{"id":16509,"date":"2015-01-09T12:55:22","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T11:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16509"},"modified":"2015-01-09T12:55:22","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T11:55:22","slug":"the-love-that-lasted-65-years-before-they-died-only-days-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16509","title":{"rendered":"The love that lasted 65 years before they died only days apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a story that sounds too romantic and tragic to be true.<\/p>\n<p>The wife of a World War Two veteran who left his nursing home to go to France for D-Day commemorations has died just days after her husband.<\/p>\n<p>Bernard Jordan sparked a police search when he left the care home in Hove to join fellow veterans in June.<\/p>\n<p>Irene Jordan, 88, died on Tuesday &#8211; a week after her husband. They were married for more than 65 years.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about Bernard and Irene <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/bernard-jordan-widow-normandy-great-4939601\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a story that sounds too romantic and tragic to be true. The wife of a World War Two veteran who left his nursing home to go to France for D-Day commemorations has died just days after her husband. Bernard Jordan sparked a police search when he left the care home in Hove to join [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16509"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16512,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16509\/revisions\/16512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}