{"id":12998,"date":"2014-09-11T18:19:27","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T22:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=12998"},"modified":"2014-09-12T19:26:17","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T23:26:17","slug":"thursday-night-the-power-of-symbols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2014\/09\/11\/thursday-night-the-power-of-symbols\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday night &#8211; the power of symbols"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I woke in a strange bed this morning.. not that strange, really. Diane and I slept in Gabe&#8217;s bed because she&#8217;d just finished doing a wonderful paint ob of our room&#8230;and it was still drying. It was fin falling asleep in the room I slept in for many years before kids&#8230;.. It had also been Max&#8217;s room, then sams room.. then gab&#8217;s room.<\/p>\n<p>i woke disoriented though.. where was I .. I saw the spiral on the ceiling..<\/p>\n<p>Sam and Diane pained that just before he died.. it was a portal to another world we decided..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"THursday night - the power of symbols\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_7139.jpg\" alt=\"THursday night - the power of symbols\" \/><\/p>\n<p>the rest of the stuff in the room was all gabe..s<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_7142.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>. he also had some tribute stuff.. .. .. he had his brothers lacrosse jerseys<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_7140.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>and a bunch of stuff from our friend Dylan..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_7141.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>it took me awile to process as I was waking up.. it felt good to be lying in there among all my kids&#8217; things..<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>then I wnet to work today. A freind of mine was in from texas to give a talk.. and I wanted to see it.. as I was walkign up the stairs, i noticed hte fflags were at half mast&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>why ?!?!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ah.. Spet 11.. how could I forget.. again the power of symbols.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_7148.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>my favorite symbol of the day was much more subtle.. as I was walkign out of a meeting.. i realized that I&#8217;d met diane on these staires almost exactly 32 years ago&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_7145.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>now that&#8217;s a symbol i like !<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>nite all. nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke in a strange bed this morning.. not that strange, really. Diane and I slept in Gabe&#8217;s bed because she&#8217;d just finished doing a wonderful paint ob of our room&#8230;and it was still drying. It was fin falling asleep in the room I slept in for many years before kids&#8230;.. It had also been &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2014\/09\/11\/thursday-night-the-power-of-symbols\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday night &#8211; the power of symbols<\/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":[943],"class_list":["post-12998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-the-power-of-symbols"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12998","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=12998"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13014,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12998\/revisions\/13014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}