{"id":2801,"date":"2011-09-07T21:26:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T01:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=2801"},"modified":"2011-09-07T21:26:59","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T01:26:59","slug":"wednesday-night-other-peoples-tragedies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2011\/09\/07\/wednesday-night-other-peoples-tragedies\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday night – other people’s tragedies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not sure I like that title.. but.. I’m not sure how to capture what I’m feeling tonight.. The last couple of days I’ve heard several very sad stories from friends and friends of friends.. I’m thinking tonight about those folks.. and the loss they are feeling.. and I feel the echo of it deep inside myself. It’s strange how soemthing that might catch your eye in a newspaper.. a flood, a fire.. and untimely death\u00a0 becomes so different when you know the person.. or their families..\u00a0\u00a0 We all felt that when the floods hit Vermont this past week. Seeing the\u00a0 pictures on TV and in the papers felt different\u00a0 than\u00a0 when we saw the same things happening to our neighbors and\u00a0 friends..\u00a0 In the last couple of days I’ve heard stories of pets that have died, friends of friends\u00a0 kids that have passed away suddenly\u00a0\u00a0 I didn’t know the people directly.. but knew folks who did.. but still d each of those stories knocks the wind out of me for a little while..<\/p>\n

All this week I’ve\u00a0 been watching the stories of the Texas wildfires.. I saw this map yesterday and noticed that many of the blazes are near where I grew up.. I hear today that over 1200 homes and other buildings have been lost to the fires in the past week<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Tonight when I got home\u00a0 learned that our good freind Trevor’s family’s house was one of those homes destroyed.. it was no longer a news story..it was ‘us’.\u00a0 \u00a0 I just can’t believe it..\u00a0\u00a0 Trevor used to live up here.. he was actually here at our house when we heard about Sam’s accident.. We’re not sure what to do for him now.. but we have to do soemthing. We love that kid..<\/p>\n

We’re think of you trevor !<\/p>\n

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

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

Not sure I like that title.. but.. I’m not sure how to capture what I’m feeling tonight.. The last couple of days I’ve heard several very sad stories from friends and friends of friends.. I’m thinking tonight about those folks.. and the loss they are feeling.. and I feel the echo of it deep inside … Continue reading Wednesday night – other people’s tragedies<\/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":[253],"class_list":["post-2801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-other-peoples-tragedies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801","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=2801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2804,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions\/2804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}