{"id":1059,"date":"2025-04-24T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2025-05-30T09:53:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T13:53:18","slug":"2025-memorial-brick-dedication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/2025-memorial-brick-dedication\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Memorial Brick Dedication"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Thursday April 24, the Garden Club gathered at the Museum Garden to reflect on the life of the late Elaine Rajcula, longtime member and two-term president who passed away in January. We were joined by several members of Elaine\u2019s family as we dedicated a brick in the path to her memory. Happy stories were shared, and some tears were shed. Elaine was a presence in the club and in the town. 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We were joined by several members of Elaine\u2019s family as we dedicated a brick in the path to her memory. Happy stories were &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/2025-memorial-brick-dedication\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2025 Memorial Brick Dedication&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,9],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brookfield-ct","tag-garden-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1069,"href":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions\/1069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}