{"id":217,"date":"2008-10-27T10:07:54","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T14:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/?p=217"},"modified":"2008-10-28T21:43:50","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T01:43:50","slug":"elizabeth-bruhns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/elizabeth-bruhns\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Bruhns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am, it is fair to say, one of the lousiest, laziest\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/web.extension.uiuc.edu\/cook\/mgchicago\/index.html\">master gardeners<\/a> in Chicago. I went through the 12-week training in early 2007; in the ensuing year you&#8217;re supposed to complete 60 hours of volunteer week to get your full MG certification. My tally has been stalled at about 30 for a while now.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Bruhns, the MG program coordinator, noticed I was lagging this spring, and got on my case about it. &#8220;We don&#8217;t want to lose you,&#8221; she said, and briskly moved my name from the list of 2008 graduates to those scheduled to wrap it up in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t know her well, but Elizabeth always seemed to me to just\u00a0<strong>get things done<\/strong>, with little fuss, and I admired her for that. When I found out last week that she had died&#8211;suddenly, randomly, horribly&#8211;I was stunned.* I still am. But I am feeling a fresh surge of motivation to finish those volunteer credits. It seems the least I could do.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/obituaries\/chi-hed_bruhns-26-oct26,0,1822625.story\">nice obit<\/a>\u00a0from yesterday&#8217;s\u00a0Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>* I was also stunned and disturbed to learn that the bitterly funny and brilliantly talented\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twocoatsofpaint.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/patrick-w-welch-untimely-death-in.html\">Patrick Welch<\/a>, who I knew slightly and whose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gescheidle.com\/view_artist.php?aid=12\">work<\/a> I liked a lot, died October 16. It&#8217;s been a bad week.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am, it is fair to say, one of the lousiest, laziest\u00a0master gardeners in Chicago. I went through the 12-week training in early 2007; in the ensuing year you&#8217;re supposed to complete 60 hours of volunteer week to get your full MG certification. My tally has been stalled at about 30 for a while now. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/elizabeth-bruhns\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}