{"id":2466,"date":"2011-06-18T20:25:44","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T00:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=2466"},"modified":"2011-06-19T21:43:20","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T01:43:20","slug":"saturday-night-graduated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2011\/06\/18\/saturday-night-graduated\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday night &#8211; graduated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was peaceful and quiet.. started out hot and humid.. then rain.. then beautiful. A good day for graduations.. We had lots of friends walk the stage today.. from MMU. L too many to name.. but folks like sumner, paulo, jacki, casey. ..graduated.. . from essex our buddy Nick..<\/p>\n<p>We were invited to  a couple of parties.. First we went to sumner&#8217;s ..  i am so proud of him. It&#8217;s so good to see him graduate. He&#8217;s been part of our lives since he was tiny.. .. hard to believe he was <em>ever<\/em> tiny !.\u00a0\u00a0 When Sumner&#8217;s dad died in 2000 I remember promising his mom that we&#8217;d look out for him.. then when sam died, sumner promised to look out for us.. .. and we&#8217;ve both kept our words..\u00a0\u00a0 he&#8217;ll always be part of our lives..<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jun1811\/jun1811096.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After hanging out at sumners we headed to Nick&#8217;s .. Nick went to Essex.. he&#8217;s an awesome kid.. a great guitar player too. He played Phish&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/www.samstones.org\/music\/08%20If%20I%20Could,%20I%20Would.mp3\"> &#8220;if I would, I could&#8221; at Sam&#8217;s memorial.. <\/a>I&#8217;ll never forget that.. He&#8217;s going to do premed now..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I managed to forget to take his picture.. but I managed to get a snap of his cake complete with picture..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jun1811\/jun1811097.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>and that was our day&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0 counting milestones with others.. each a new start.. each a gentle tug on my heartstrings.. good luck all you grads&#8230; go out there and do cool stuff.. eat weird food, go uncommon places, build new things, try new thoughts.. take some risks,\u00a0 make mistakes, find new loves, and don&#8217;t take life too seriously (do as I say.. not as I do \ud83d\ude42 &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>nite all, nite sam..<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was peaceful and quiet.. started out hot and humid.. then rain.. then beautiful. A good day for graduations.. We had lots of friends walk the stage today.. from MMU. L too many to name.. but folks like sumner, paulo, jacki, casey. ..graduated.. . from essex our buddy Nick.. We were invited to a couple &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2011\/06\/18\/saturday-night-graduated\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saturday night &#8211; graduated<\/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":[185],"class_list":["post-2466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-grads"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466","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=2466"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2469,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions\/2469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}