{"id":12588,"date":"2020-12-14T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=12588"},"modified":"2020-12-16T23:46:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T05:46:10","slug":"alice-zimple-1934-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/alice-zimple-1934-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Alice Zimple, 1934-2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alice Zimple of Traer died Friday. She is the fourth person Traer United Methodist Church has lost this year, including one to COVID-19. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kruse-phillips.com\/obituary\/alice-zimple\">Her obituary is here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alice was the heart of Traer UMC&#8217;s kitchen, no matter what the event. She\u00a0was the person I had in mind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iowastatedaily.com\/opinion\/column-refusing-to-join-the-exodus-from-iowa\/article_3bf1b17a-fc7c-59d0-9c3a-0b182c94655c.html\">when I wrote in 2004<\/a>, &#8220;One day, someone is going to die, no one who coordinated funeral potlucks for the past 25 years will be able to help, and there won&#8217;t be any younger people to take their place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a bitter irony, there will be no funeral luncheon tomorrow for the woman who organized a countless number of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alice Zimple of Traer died Friday. She is the fourth person Traer United Methodist Church has lost this year, including one to COVID-19. Her obituary is here. Alice was the heart of Traer UMC&#8217;s kitchen, no matter what the event. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/alice-zimple-1934-2020\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tama-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12589,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12588\/revisions\/12589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}