{"id":2367,"date":"2011-05-27T19:53:08","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T23:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=2367"},"modified":"2011-05-27T21:56:45","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T01:56:45","slug":"friday-the-day-before-sams-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2011\/05\/27\/friday-the-day-before-sams-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"FRiday – The day before Sam’s birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve had a slow and quiet day.. Many folks have already taken off for the long weekend… and my laptop were out of commission.. Both lead to a day with lots of space for thinking. I’ve been crying on and off all day.. which kind of surprises me.. I mean I know the reason.. Tomorrow would have been Sam’s 19th birthday. It’s just that I now go many days… sometimes weeks without breaking down.. To do so throughout a day like this hasn’t happened in a long time. I often tell folks that ask me about things like birthdays, that ‘special’\u00a0 days aren’t really that much harder than\u00a0 ‘normal’ days.. it’s just that everyone else remembers..<\/p>\n

But… that’s not exactly through.. Days like this bring back specific memories more than other.. we remember where we were.. what we did, what we ate.. w.. through pictures we even capture wat we looked like..<\/p>\n

As I restored my laptop today I had to go through and copy lots and lots of pictures.. many from before Sam’s passing.. I loved looking at them.. Perhaps it was a special gift to have to go through them today..\u00a0 I love seeing what a happy and beautiful boy my Sam was.. always a smile.. always active.. it warms my heart…\u00a0 It also hurts so much…. I remember where I was 19 years ago tonight.. I was right here<\/p>\n

Happy almost birthday my son… we love you forever..<\/p>\n

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ps . Were having aparty to celibrate Max’s graduation and to honor Sam’s Birthday.. Pleease comen and help us congratulate max.. and send some love to Sam .. and congratulate Ian.<\/p>\n

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Max\u2019s College Graduation \u2013 Sam\u2019s 19th Birthday \u2013 Ian\u2019s First Marathon<\/h1>\n

7PM Sunday May 29th<\/h1>\n

Old Jonesville Schoolhouse<\/h1>\n

20 Duxbury Rd, Richmond, VT 05477<\/h1>\n

Please come help us celebrate Max on completing his college experience at the Pratt Institute. It is quite an accomplishment and we all are so proud of him. There will be a showing of his senior film projects after dark.<\/p>\n

Sam\u2019s birthday is on Saturday and we will give him a Red Bull toast on Sunday and send him some love from all of us. He is forever in our hearts and sharing these moments with you is important. We will have Sam Stones out to make, if you wish to help.<\/p>\n

Keeping the spirit of celebrating in our house, Sunday is the Burlington City Marathon and we will give cheers to Ian for his first marathon. He will be running for both Sam & Dylan.<\/p>\n

We will provide cake, ice cream sundaes, and drinks. If possible, please bring a party appetizer to share.<\/p>\n

The pool will be open for swimming (bring suits & towels) and the barn open for jamming (bring instruments).<\/p>\n

Let us know if you can come. Love to see you.
\nThe Mariano-Cohn Family<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve had a slow and quiet day.. Many folks have already taken off for the long weekend… and my laptop were out of commission.. Both lead to a day with lots of space for thinking. I’ve been crying on and off all day.. which kind of surprises me.. I mean I know the reason.. Tomorrow … Continue reading FRiday – The day before Sam’s birthday<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[167],"class_list":["post-2367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-day-before"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367","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=2367"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2370,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367\/revisions\/2370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}