{"id":46621,"date":"2026-04-12T14:01:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T18:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=46621"},"modified":"2026-04-19T20:25:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:25:35","slug":"no-longer-the-west-week-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2026\/04\/no-longer-the-west-week-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"No longer the West Week Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Awful news via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-for-thewest-family\" target=gfm>the GoFundMe<\/a> today:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/willwest1.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"435\" alt=\"With a heavy heart, I\u2019m sharing that William has passed away.\n\nThese past weeks have been filled with so much uncertainty, hope, and love. I truly believed we might still have more time, but his body had been through so much, and he just wasn't able to keep fighting.\n\nOur girls and I are completely heartbroken. He was such a loving father, and the bond he shared with them was something truly special. We will carry his love forward together, and I will do everything I can to make sure they always know how deeply he loved them.\n\nI want to thank every single one of you who supported us - through donations, messages, prayers, and simply holding us in your thoughts. It meant more than I can ever fully express. You carried us through the hardest moments of our lives.\n\nWilliam was deeply loved by so many, and I made sure he knew that. I will carry him with me always - in every memory, every quiet moment, every piece of my heart.\n\nRight now, we\u2019re taking things one moment at a time. Thank you for surrounding our family with so much love.\n\n\u2014 Lindsay\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>Every time we referred to Will as \"<a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/will1.jpg\">friend of the site<\/a>,\" we really meant it. Everybody will miss you, man.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/willwest2.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Will's longtime profile pic, showing him wearing a Spider-Man shirt, an Iron Man mask, and carrying both Mjolnir and Captain America's shield.\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awful news via the GoFundMe today: Every time we referred to Will as \"friend of the site,\" we really meant it. Everybody will miss you, man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46621"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46648,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46621\/revisions\/46648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}