{"id":62905,"date":"2024-03-16T12:02:17","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T12:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=62905"},"modified":"2024-03-16T12:55:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T12:55:04","slug":"tribute-to-ron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/03\/tribute-to-ron\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribute to Ron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rollright King<br \/>\nRon-Dudley Smith<br \/>\nToday at three<br \/>\nWe all are with<br \/>\nHis friends and family<br \/>\nTo say goodbye<br \/>\nAnd thank him for being<br \/>\nSuch a lovely guy<\/p>\n<p>His smiling face<br \/>\nWas all we saw<br \/>\nHis jokes and jovial way<br \/>\nWas more<br \/>\nBeautiful than much around<br \/>\nThe king of kings<br \/>\nYoung Ron we crowned<\/p>\n<p>He always had a go at me<br \/>\nAnd of course I loved that actually<br \/>\nJoy could have been his middle name<br \/>\nAnd coming to Rollrights<br \/>\nWon\u2019t feel the same<br \/>\nWelcoming, happy, gratified<br \/>\nRadiant and starry eyed<br \/>\nAll these attributes For Dear Ron<br \/>\nWho began a journey<br \/>\nAnd has now  gone<\/p>\n<p>Not far away to a wooded grove<br \/>\nTo entertain the wild ones there<br \/>\nHis shadows no doubt will remain<br \/>\nIn and around the stones we share<br \/>\nBeing lovely a quality<br \/>\nThat honestly one doesn\u2019t see<br \/>\nThat much<br \/>\nof these days but He<br \/>\nWas as I say extraordinary<\/p>\n<p>Today at three<br \/>\nWe hope to be<br \/>\nSome where close<br \/>\nTo the stones to see<br \/>\nAnd hear a ritual for  Dear Ron<br \/>\nThe man the druid the gentleman<br \/>\nFrom Rex  who was infact<br \/>\na fan<\/p>\n<p>From Claudia Dawn and Rex <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rollright King Ron-Dudley Smith Today at three We all are with His friends and family To say goodbye And thank him for being Such a lovely guy His smiling face Was all we saw His jokes and jovial way &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/03\/tribute-to-ron\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,50,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emotional-poems","category-obituaries","category-people-i-have-observed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62905"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62909,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62905\/revisions\/62909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}