{"id":1895,"date":"2010-04-16T12:05:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T18:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=1895"},"modified":"2010-04-16T12:07:47","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T18:07:47","slug":"we-said-goodbye-to-a-great-man-this-morning-a-life-we%e2%80%99ll-never-be-able-to-get-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/we-said-goodbye-to-a-great-man-this-morning-a-life-we%e2%80%99ll-never-be-able-to-get-over\/","title":{"rendered":"We said goodbye to a great man this morning: a life we\u2019ll never be able to get over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/i355.photobucket.com\/albums\/r472\/barbaramcgee\/IMG_0017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"249\" \/>After a brave and valiant fight, my good friend Hal Wilson passed away this morning into eternity.\u00a0 And he is, at this moment, enjoying the fruits of his labor.<\/p>\n<p>Hal Wilson was a great man in every stretch of the imagination:\u00a0 good father, great husband, the kind of friend you only pray you might have one day.<\/p>\n<p>When I say \u201cgreat\u201d I mean it.\u00a0 Here are the things, to me, that made Hal great:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hal always smiled, leaned forward and shook your hand, like a guy who was interested in you first.<\/li>\n<li>Hal was incredibly positive; not Pollyana positive, but real-world positive: the kind of guy who was infectious.<\/li>\n<li>Hal loved his wife Dickie with great passion and faithfulness.<\/li>\n<li>Hal loved his children and always spoke of them with a smile to me.<\/li>\n<li>Hal loved to ride motorcycles, Harleys of course &#8211; nothing but the best.<\/li>\n<li>Hal was a great businessman and had a reputation for not only being smart, but for being good and fair.<\/li>\n<li>Hal never complained publicly.\u00a0 Even in the last days when a group of us gathered in Hal\u2019s home and he was in excruciating pain, he never complained.<\/li>\n<li>Hal built a business and left a legacy.<\/li>\n<li>Hal used business not only to build an income and a living, but to help other people.<\/li>\n<li>Hal was not only employed, but he helped employ other people and create wealth that would bless others.<\/li>\n<li>Hal was a godly man who was willing to let his faith show through his life.<\/li>\n<li>Hal reached out to me and loved me well as a friend.<\/li>\n<li>At a particularly down moment in my life when people I counted on walked away, Hal and Dickie stayed, and supported and loved.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well I could go on and on, but you get the point.\u00a0 He was a great man who inspires me to greatness.<\/p>\n<p>Goodbye, Hal.\u00a0 You may be enjoying your eternal reward, but we will always miss you.\u00a0 We will never forget you.\u00a0 Most of all, we\u2019ll never get over you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a brave and valiant fight, my good friend Hal Wilson passed away this morning into eternity.\u00a0 And he is, at this moment, enjoying the fruits of his labor. Hal Wilson was a great man in every stretch of the imagination:\u00a0 good father, great husband, the kind of friend you only pray you might have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/we-said-goodbye-to-a-great-man-this-morning-a-life-we%e2%80%99ll-never-be-able-to-get-over\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We said goodbye to a great man this morning: a life we\u2019ll never be able to get over&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1895"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}