{"id":1582,"date":"2010-12-08T23:52:54","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T03:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=1582"},"modified":"2010-12-08T23:52:54","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T03:52:54","slug":"thursday-night-old-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2010\/12\/08\/thursday-night-old-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday night – old friends"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tonight was our annual fathers night out.. one December night for at least the last 15 years, I’ve met up with the members of my old dad’s group for a night of not-shopping. Our original goal was to meet for dinner and beers.. then go out shopping for our wives.. Somehow in the last decade and a half.. the shopping time has decreased while the beer time increased. Tonight I don’t think any of us really did any shopping. It’s a comfortable tradition. Same place, same time.. generally the same week. We all catch up , talk about kids, work,… the weather.. the kind of small talk that you can stretch ot for 15 years.. Most of the guys I see around all the time.. some.. I only see on this night…<\/p>\n

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The group has been there for each other over some really tough stuff..\u00a0\u00a0 family troubles, work troubles, …9\/11… Sam…\u00a0 I rmember that our night out in 2006 was the first time I left the house alone after Sam died.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I remember trying to shop.. it was so , so surreal<\/p>\n

Even now, I just cant get my head around buying stuff for xmas.. It’s not that it’s too sad….. I like<\/em> christmas now.. It’s just that I don’t like the idea of aquiring more ‘stuff’<\/p>\n

Tonight .. I did a little window shopping then gave up\/ .. still it was fun to try.<\/p>\n

We all knocked off early.. I was home befor e9…<\/p>\n

another yearly ritual ticked off.. The calendar reminds of two other milestones… It was tonight 2 years ago that I walked outside with my glass of wine and asked the cosmos what I sjould do next.. The next day I got the call from the makers of The Colony..<\/p>\n

Diane also reminds me that it was 30 years ago today that John Lennon was killed..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I remember standing in a museum .. not believing what I had just heard..<\/p>\n

OK not much else in my head for tonight.. the last night (I thik) of Chanukah..<\/p>\n

Hope everyone is staying warm…<\/p>\n

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

-me<\/p>\n

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Tonight was our annual fathers night out.. one December night for at least the last 15 years, I’ve met up with the members of my old dad’s group for a night of not-shopping. Our original goal was to meet for dinner and beers.. then go out shopping for our wives.. Somehow in the last decade … Continue reading Thursday night – old friends<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[],"class_list":["post-1582","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\/1582","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=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1586,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions\/1586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}