{"id":2461,"date":"2012-11-25T15:29:51","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T22:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=2461"},"modified":"2019-07-07T16:37:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T23:37:41","slug":"rip-shanon-aka-bite-me-diving-smurf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=2461","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. &#8211; Shanon, a.k.a &#8220;Bite Me,&#8221; &#8220;Diving Smurf&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been delaying this post for several days, hoping that the source was somehow mistaken.<\/p>\n<p>Last Tuesday, November 20th, Dan from the Divevets posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.divevets.com\/dvsmf\/index.php?topic=2119.0\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> this message, on the message board:<\/a><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n&#8220;Saw this on Facebook: Barbara Soto &#8211; &#8216;Today I lost a wonderful niece.  Shanon Wesserling.   She could not take her living conditions anymore or her pain.  Though she had many problems, she was a wonderful person. Giving, caring, always there to lend a helping hand to those who needed it.  I will miss her terribly.  God Bless you Shanon and now you are truly at peace. Love Aunt Barbie.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><em>&#8220;Shanon started diving with us 8 or 9 years ago. She had many problems, some we witnessed and many we did not. Goodbye Shanon, I hope you are in a better place.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Shanon was a regular member of the Divevets and Pacific Wilderness Diving Club;  I remember her from the early days of when I started diving.<\/p>\n<p>The last few years were very hard for her;  I guess harder than anyone could have imagined.<\/p>\n<p>She will be missed, and I prefer to remember the happier Shanon from several years back.<\/p>\n<p>These photos are from 2007.<\/p>\n<p><strong>R.I.P Shanon,  a.k.a &#8220;Bite Me,&#8221; &#8220;Diving Smurf&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/dsc00115wqwq.jpg\" alt=\"Shanon W. the diver.\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/dsc01689.jpg\" alt=\"Shanon W. the diver.\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/dsc01558sl1.jpg\" alt=\"Shanon W. the diver.\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/dsc01562sl1.jpg\" alt=\"Shanon W. the diver.\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/dsc01570sl1.jpg\" alt=\"Shanon W. the diver.\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been delaying this post for several days, hoping that the source was somehow mistaken. Last Tuesday, November 20th, Dan from the Divevets posted this message, on the message board: &#8220;Saw this on Facebook: Barbara Soto &#8211; &#8216;Today I lost a wonderful niece. Shanon Wesserling. She could not take her living conditions anymore or her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,23,13,9,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5044,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions\/5044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}