{"id":134155,"date":"2026-05-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=134155"},"modified":"2026-06-21T14:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T18:06:11","slug":"thursday-night-sam-would-be-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2026\/05\/28\/thursday-night-sam-would-be-34\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday night – Sam would be 34"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today our wonderful Sam would have celebrated his 34th birthday..\u00a0 “Would have” sounds so strange when I say it. .. or even think it as im doing now.\u00a0

I think of that boy all the time.. his kindness, his love.. and his mischievous sense of fun. He’s still vey present in all of our lives\u00a0

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We market the day as we usually do , with a jike. Diane and I went up to the fire tower with our neighbors dog Oaklee…. it was a beutiful day.. Having Oklee with us, meant we had to go up the tower one at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We brought one of Sam’s red bull cans that we’d made into an ornament. DIane found a great place to hang it on teh way up the tower\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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diane foudn a great place to hang one of Sam’s redbull ornements on the way up the tower<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I worked at hoem the rest of the day.. My old freinds Paul and Paul came by whcih was great. I dont see them much .. but love it whe I do. Paul and Paul went with me on my freist shoppping trip in vermont.. I was tryign to buy a bed, and ended up with a ‘Wate and Fate” scale that told your fortune and your weight when you put in a penny.. I still have it !<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Around 6, some freinds showed up for a Sam dinner. Hannah and Nate braught some foraged moreels.. we cooked them up. and at them.. yum !<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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then a nice low key dinner\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And Dianes amazing Carrot cake.. which was Sam’s favorite .. for desert\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Happy birthday my son.. we miss you and will always love you !

nite all. nite sam<\/p>\n

-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today our wonderful Sam would have celebrated his 34th birthday..\u00a0 “Would have” sounds so strange when I say it. .. or even think it as im doing now.\u00a0 I think of that boy all the time.. his kindness, his love.. and his mischievous sense of fun. He’s still vey present in all of our lives\u00a0 … Continue reading Thursday night – Sam would be 34<\/span> →<\/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-134155","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\/134155","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=134155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134858,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134155\/revisions\/134858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}