{"id":26903,"date":"2022-02-20T13:25:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T21:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/?p=26903"},"modified":"2022-02-20T13:25:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T21:25:06","slug":"obituary-greg-aitken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2022\/02\/20\/obituary-greg-aitken\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary: Greg Aitken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26904\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/files\/2022\/02\/Greg-Aitken-e1645392247913.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"326\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Greg Aitken, who served as UFV&#8217;s grounds supervisor for many years before retiring in 2017, passed away after a brief illness on Feb 12, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>He was instrumental in creating the beautiful landscapes on the UFV Abbotsford and Chilliwack campuses.<\/p>\n<p>After his retirement, he and his wife settled into a new home at Cowichan Lake.<\/p>\n<div>His son Tim reports that his final message to his friends and colleagues was that &#8220;everyone gets a fresh start&#8221; and that Greg had made peace with his cancer diagnosis in January 2022, and died without regret.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Greg Aitken, who served as UFV&#8217;s grounds supervisor for many years before retiring in 2017, passed away after a brief illness on Feb 12, 2022. He was instrumental in creating the beautiful landscapes on the UFV Abbotsford and Chilliwack campuses. After his retirement, he and his wife settled into a new home at Cowichan &#8230; <a title=\"Obituary: Greg Aitken\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2022\/02\/20\/obituary-greg-aitken\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26905,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26903\/revisions\/26905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}