{"id":3023,"date":"2011-11-02T23:58:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T03:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=3023"},"modified":"2011-11-02T23:58:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T03:58:38","slug":"wednesday-night-bentley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2011\/11\/02\/wednesday-night-bentley\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday night &#8211; Bentley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"bentley\" src=\"http:\/\/denpubs.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com\/img\/photos\/2011\/09\/21\/Bentley_Davis_Seifer_t670.jpg?b3f6a5d7692ccc373d56e40cf708e3fa67d9af9d\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s 11L30 and I just got home. I met up with Bruce. Bruce&#8217;s 12 year old son Bentley died last July in an accident at the Bolton potholes. I  reached out to Bentley&#8217;s dad a few weeks back after his name came came into my life 3 times in 3 days.. I figured it was time to connect. We met for dinner and talked about life and death.. kids, wives, friends, work.. and all that changes and doesn&#8217;t change after someone you love dies. It was good hearing Bruce&#8217;s story an learning more about Bentley.. he was a bright, fun and funny 12 year old.. lots of skills.. very loving. He was Bruce and his wife Julie&#8217;s only child.<br \/>\n    Bruce told me of all the support they&#8217;d gotten from his community..He also told me about some amazing and unworldly coincidences that occurred around Bentley&#8217;s passing.. both brought back such strong memories of Sam.<br \/>\n   We were both in a quiet mood as we went o hear Lucinda Williams play at the Flynn.. not sure that was the best idea  given our spirits.. .. but the show was good. A fair share of Lucinda&#8217;s music is about death and loss. .. much of it is upbeat.. Towards the end , Lucinda sang the song &#8216;Copenhagan&#8217; she wrote it on hearing about the death of her freind and tour manager Frank Callari, She told us about a music video that the creator of Squidbillies made from the song.. weird stuff.. but it moved me.. <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3QN7VSOklKI?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I said goodbye to Bruce and drove home.. I was feeling pretty low&#8230;   so I called my buddy George (colony I guy).. an we caught up.. we were talking about organ donation and sam&#8217;s death.. As I was driving into our little town I was  telling him how hard it was for me to think of those 3 days. around Sam&#8217;s passing.. just . 5 years ago this month..   <\/p>\n<p>just then there was a huge shooting star over our house..   .made me feel better<\/p>\n<p>nite all, nite sam<br \/>\n-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 11L30 and I just got home. I met up with Bruce. Bruce&#8217;s 12 year old son Bentley died last July in an accident at the Bolton potholes. I reached out to Bentley&#8217;s dad a few weeks back after his name came came into my life 3 times in 3 days.. I figured it was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2011\/11\/02\/wednesday-night-bentley\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday night &#8211; Bentley<\/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":[309],"class_list":["post-3023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bentley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023","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=3023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3024,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023\/revisions\/3024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}