{"id":1793,"date":"2016-02-23T11:25:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T17:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/?p=1793"},"modified":"2019-09-11T12:26:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T17:26:04","slug":"skype-connects-couple-after-70-years-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/2016\/02\/23\/skype-connects-couple-after-70-years-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"Skype and CrowdFunding connects couple after 70 years apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a plot worthy of a romantic comedy, World War II veteran Steve Thomas will soon reunite with his wartime girlfriend Joyce. Their reunion is the result of wonderful memories, mutual interest, and a little help from 300 people they have never met!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1794\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pilotonline.com\/news\/military\/veterans\/after-wave-of-donations-d-day-vet-plans-to-reunite\/article_43b6fb56-a2d5-5129-a1de-aaca84cd4f5e.html?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1794 noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1794\" class=\"wp-image-1794 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/files\/2016\/02\/Reuniting-490x276.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Thomas Reuniting\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/files\/2016\/02\/Reuniting-490x276.jpg 490w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/files\/2016\/02\/Reuniting-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/files\/2016\/02\/Reuniting-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/files\/2016\/02\/Reuniting.jpg 637w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1794\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Thomas skypes with Joyce Durrant Morris. After 70 years apart, the couple recently reunited. Photo courtesy of http:\/\/pilotonline.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/imagesofaging\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Images of Aging<\/a> photo contest continues through March 8, 2016. Please enter your <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/imagesofaging\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Images of Aging<\/a> photos this week! Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/imagesofaging\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Images of Aging blog<\/a> for more information!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[subscribe2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a plot worthy of a romantic comedy, World War II veteran Steve Thomas will soon reunite with his wartime girlfriend Joyce. Their reunion is the result of wonderful memories, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10682,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42240],"tags":[86832,125166,161995,161650,86823,161651,161652,125165],"class_list":["post-1793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived","tag-charlie-pruett","tag-crowdfunding","tag-older-adult-ministry-2","tag-pgc","tag-pruett-gerontology-center","tag-retiree-ministry","tag-senior-adult-ministry","tag-skype"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10682"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001451,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions\/1001451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}