{"id":10766,"date":"2014-05-20T22:14:11","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T02:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=10766"},"modified":"2014-05-20T22:14:11","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T02:14:11","slug":"tuesday-night-stairway-to-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2014\/05\/20\/tuesday-night-stairway-to-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday night &#8211; Stairway to Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Every time I walk up the stairs in my house it;s like a mini pilgrimage . .I start up the stairs,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_9399.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">take the first turn.. then<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_9400.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Turn around and say hi to my kids. I touch them all.. Sam last .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_9401.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">then I turn again and walk up to the hall.. .. on the way I touch the sacred notch in the railing. I&#8217;ve been touching that\u00a0 same place for the last 22 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_9402.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I then stop at the picture of my mom and dad.. I touch dad&#8217;s face.. I did it even while he was ill. but now that he&#8217;s gone, I always stay a bit longer and say hi<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_9403.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Right above is a piucture of Gabe and Marcia. I&#8217;ve been touching Gabe&#8217;s picture and saying hi since he passed away in January..<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_9404.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Then I turn to go into our room.\u00a0 There are collages I made of all three kids pictures. I look at them all.. every day.. I always touch the pictures of Sam and kiss my hand as I go by. Sometimes I even kiss the picture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_9405.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I always feel better when I get to my room that way<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">nite all. nite sam<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">-me<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I walk up the stairs in my house it;s like a mini pilgrimage . .I start up the stairs, take the first turn.. then Turn around and say hi to my kids. I touch them all.. Sam last . then I turn again and walk up to the hall.. .. on the way &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2014\/05\/20\/tuesday-night-stairway-to-heaven\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday night &#8211; Stairway to Heaven<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[770],"class_list":["post-10766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-stairway-to-heaven"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10766","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=10766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10775,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10766\/revisions\/10775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}