{"id":101497,"date":"2023-12-11T14:14:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=101497"},"modified":"2023-12-24T14:22:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T18:22:17","slug":"monday-night-fireflys-husband-tom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2023\/12\/11\/monday-night-fireflys-husband-tom\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday night &#8211; Firefly&#8217;s husband, Tom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tonight after work Diane and I went to a memorial service for our friend Firefly (carol)&#8217;s husband Tom. He died this week of esophageal cancer. Firefly is on e of our burning man friends. She just showed up one day and started cleaning up the workspaces as we worked on fluffy. She was with us at build week on the Playa this summer. That&#8217;s when she told us about\u00a0 Tom&#8217;s illness.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I never met Tom&#8230;. though we got a sense of him though <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legacy.com\/us\/obituaries\/name\/thomas-brown-obituary?id=53657051\">his Obit<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"339\" height=\"440\" data-id=\"101498\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/tombrown.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-101498\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/tombrown.jpeg 339w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/tombrown.jpeg 231w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/tombrown.jpeg 116w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 339px) 100vw, 339px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was good meeting Carol and Tom&#8217;s sons at the memorial. We came on the late side.. many of our troop came through earlier. Its nice how experiences like\u00a0 burning man.. and projects like Fluffy bring people together. Its kinda like an extended family. I know Firefly felt the love.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll keep\u00a0 Firefly and her family in our thoughts..\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight after work Diane and I went to a memorial service for our friend Firefly (carol)&#8217;s husband Tom. He died this week of esophageal cancer. Firefly is on e of our burning man friends. She just showed up one day and started cleaning up the workspaces as we worked on fluffy. She was with us &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2023\/12\/11\/monday-night-fireflys-husband-tom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday night &#8211; Firefly&#8217;s husband, Tom<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101499,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101497\/revisions\/101499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}