{"id":13,"date":"2012-05-26T15:13:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T15:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inmemoryof.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=13"},"modified":"2012-05-28T09:10:32","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T09:10:32","slug":"hubert-victor-stallabrass-1904-1998","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.inmemoryof.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/hubert-victor-stallabrass-1904-1998\/","title":{"rendered":"Hubert Victor Stallabrass 1904 -1998"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Grandpa was as large in personality as he was in stature, with a voice to match. Pity his neighbours, as the walls shook with his gargantuan sneezes and renditions of his favourite songs “Sailing” being his all-time number one. He always made his presence known, and there are few who came into contact with him that do not have a lasting memory of his unique personality.<\/p>\n

Grandpa was full of catch phrases and little snippets that fascinated us: “All of a sudden”, “Black cat – missed it”; “I’m speaking on behalf of the British Bible Society!”. Strangely inappropriate quotes were recited with mock solemnity – “On such a night as this did gentle Jessica mount the Trojan wall”; we never knew where he learnt them, but they now remain as ingrained in our memory as they were in his.<\/p>\n

Grandpa had a total disregard for authority and rules if they stood in the way of what he was trying to achieve. If going up a one way street the wrong way was the quickest way to get somewhere, then so be it – and blow anyone who tried to tell him otherwise. One of my most vivid memories is being hustled by Grandpa to the front of the check-in desk at Heathrow<\/a> – other passengers stood to one side to let me through as Grandpa muttered into an imaginary walkie-talkie, no doubt assuming I was minor royalty with my bodyguard. He could blag his way in to the Rugby Final or the doctor’s dining room at Middlesex hospital without turning a hair, while those accompanying him quaked with the fear of being discovered. Read more<\/em><\/a>…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grandpa was as large in personality as he was in stature, with a voice to match. Pity his neighbours, as the walls shook with his gargantuan sneezes and renditions of his favourite songs “Sailing” being his all-time number one. He always made his presence known, and there are few who came into contact with him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,5,6],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memorials","tag-grandpa","tag-heathrow","tag-middlesex"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2th7u-d","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inmemoryof.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inmemoryof.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inmemoryof.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inmemoryof.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inmemoryof.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.inmemoryof.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"http:\/\/www.inmemoryof.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inmemoryof.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inmemoryof.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inmemoryof.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}