{"id":48979,"date":"2022-10-01T11:00:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T02:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/01\/corey-was-just-a-tourist-two-decades-after-the-bali-bombings-the-grief-remains"},"modified":"2022-10-01T11:00:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T02:00:55","slug":"corey-was-just-a-tourist-two-decades-after-the-bali-bombings-the-grief-remains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48979","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Corey was just a tourist\u2019: two decades after the Bali bombings, the grief remains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Paltridge will remember his 20-year-old son at a Perth dawn service made harder by news of the imminent release of a perpetrator of the 2002 attacks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q%3Dhttps:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP%253Dcvau_sfl%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;source%3Deditors%26amp;ust%3D1664492063204010%26amp;usg%3DAOvVaw3RnQJm98a0ohfVM5DvIkEu&amp;sa=D&amp;source=docs&amp;ust=1664492063260232&amp;usg=AOvVaw0sdV-0af705FYJDC40f0Qu\">free news app<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q%3Dhttps:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/sep\/23\/morning-mail-newsletter-best-daily-news-email-guardian-australia-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe?CMP%253Dcvau_sfl%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;source%3Deditors%26amp;ust%3D1664492063204375%26amp;usg%3DAOvVaw0kwiLxcSBfqdI1qio0HbCt&amp;sa=D&amp;source=docs&amp;ust=1664492063260359&amp;usg=AOvVaw0MrgIComPZLFeukF_8hG98\">morning email briefing<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q%3Dhttps:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP%253Dcvau_sfl%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;source%3Deditors%26amp;ust%3D1664492063204612%26amp;usg%3DAOvVaw3vGCjb6b1kOE2g2lkoRXLs&amp;sa=D&amp;source=docs&amp;ust=1664492063260485&amp;usg=AOvVaw0L08zyJXi1KvbjOAw4Mq_t\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When Kevin Paltridge\u2019s son Corey was killed in the 2002 Bali bombings, the devastated father turned to other Australians whose children had died suddenly to try to cope with his own loss.<\/p>\n<p>He quit his job as an airline supervisor and went to work at a funeral home, where he worked until his retirement a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/01\/corey-was-just-a-tourist-two-decades-after-the-bali-bombings-the-grief-remains\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Paltridge will remember his 20-year-old son at a Perth dawn service made harder by news of the imminent release of a perpetrator of the 2002 attacksGet our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastWhen Kevin Paltridge\u2019s son Core&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,413,156,854],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-bali","category-indonesia","category-western-australia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48980,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48979\/revisions\/48980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}