{"id":15224,"date":"2012-09-15T03:55:19","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T03:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2012\/09\/15\/vinsanityraw-dead-soldiers-friend-tells-why-a\/"},"modified":"2012-09-15T03:55:19","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T03:55:19","slug":"vinsanityraw-dead-soldiers-friend-tells-why-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2012\/09\/15\/vinsanityraw-dead-soldiers-friend-tells-why-a\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/vinsanityraw.tumblr.com\/post\/9829104309\/dead-soldiers-friend-tells-why-a-funeral-dress\">vinsanityraw<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/2009\/sep\/20\/elliott-delaney-funeral-dress-promise\">Dead soldier\u2019s friend tells why a funeral dress was the only way to honour him. The Observer.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cKev was like my brother \u2013 we would have done anything for each other.<br \/>We said that whoever died first, the other one had to wear a pink dress with green spots to the funeral \u2013 and we shook on it. It was mainly his idea and the more I think about it, I\u2019m sure Kevin knew something was going to happen.<br \/>I looked for the exact dress but couldn\u2019t find one anywhere.<br \/>I eventually picked up the green one in Primark and bought the pink pop socks to make it look even sillier. It\u2019s what Kev would have wanted.<br \/>Kev told his whole family about the pact, so I couldn\u2019t back out. I had a word with him at the graveside and asked if he liked the color \u2013 I\u2019m sure I could hear laughter coming out of the ground.<br \/>Kev was a true hero and someone I\u2019m proud to call my best mate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Respect.<\/p>\n<p>this is the manliest thing i\u2019ve ever seen.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>cue gross sobbing omg ;-;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>vinsanityraw: Dead soldier\u2019s friend tells why a funeral dress was the only way to honour him. The Observer. \u201cKev was like my brother \u2013 we would have done anything for each other.We said that whoever died first, the other one had to wear a pink dress with green spots to the funeral \u2013 and we &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2012\/09\/15\/vinsanityraw-dead-soldiers-friend-tells-why-a\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}