{"id":12431,"date":"2024-01-31T08:47:36","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T14:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theclarion.org\/?p=12431"},"modified":"2024-01-31T08:47:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T14:47:36","slug":"james-bently-thomas-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/?p=12431","title":{"rendered":"James Bently Thomas, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Bently Thomas, Jr., age 69 of Bridgeport, passed away on Saturday, January 20, 2024.<!--more--> A memorial service was held on Saturday, January 27, 2024 from the Rudder Funeral Home Chapel. Barry Grider officiated. <br \/>\nMr. Thomas is survived by his wife, Janet Grider Thomas; son, Bently (Kerri) Thomas; daughter, Janna Shea Thomas; grandchildren, James Thomas and Caroline Thomas; sisters, Sara (John) Gentry and LeLe (Bill) McCollum; sister in law, Mary Miles Grider; brother in law, Doyle Grider; sister, Debbie (Sam) Durham; as well as several nieces and nephews. <br \/>\nMr. Thomas was preceded in death by his parents, Jim B. Thomas and Betty Ann Jacobs Thomas; and brother in law, Marion Grider. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Bently Thomas, Jr., age 69 of Bridgeport, passed away on Saturday, January 20, 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12432,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12431\/revisions\/12432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}