{"id":3064,"date":"2011-11-12T21:50:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T01:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=3064"},"modified":"2011-11-12T21:50:26","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T01:50:26","slug":"saturday-night-happy-birthday-grandpa-gabe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2011\/11\/12\/saturday-night-happy-birthday-grandpa-gabe\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday night &#8211; Happy birthday Grandpa Gabe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy 77th birthday Grandpa Gabe..\u00a0 (It&#8217;s also Max&#8217;s Girlfriend Jac&#8217;s birthday.. as well as Neil Young&#8217;s and Charles Manson&#8217;s ) Diane&#8217;s dad is 77 today.. we&#8217;re down in Endicott to celebrate with him.\u00a0 He&#8217;s such a great guy.. kind, gentle and smart. He&#8217;s been a machinist for 60 years and has taught me much over the past 30 years. After a peaceful and lazy day, Diane&#8217;s brother Joe, is wife Pat\u00a0 came over for Chinese food and cake .. It was really nice all being together..<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/nov1211\/IMG_6507.jpg?w=474\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/nov1211\/IMG_6508.jpg?w=474\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/nov1211\/IMG_6511.jpg?w=474\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/nov1211\/IMG_6512.jpg?w=474\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nAs a joke we got Gabe 7 lottery tickets as a birthday present.. With our Gabes lucky touch he won 53 dollars ! I didn&#8217;t think people really won these things !<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/nov1211\/IMG_6513.jpg?w=474\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/nov1211\/IMG_6515.jpg?w=474\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>THis is the first time I&#8217;ve been down to Endicott since the terrible flooding they had in September.. Marcia and Gabe&#8217;s basement was destroyed and had to be comeplety orn apart.\u00a0 The small neighborhood they live in (West Corners)\u00a0 was hit so badly that it made CNN !<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/nov1211\/IMG_6502.jpg?w=474\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Driving around today even months later it is stille asy to see the destruction<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/nov1211\/IMG_6503.jpg?w=474\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gabe and I went running on the flood wall this afternoon and saw the water line from the flood.. it was 1 foot from crestign a 20 foot earthen damn. if that had given way\u00a0 the destruction would have been even worse !<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/nov1211\/IMG_6504.jpg?w=474\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/nov1211\/IMG_6505.jpg?w=474\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/nov1211\/IMG_6506.jpg?w=474\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to see Marcia and Gabe and their neighbors getting back to normal.. though the town will take a long time to recover..<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>OK.. time to watch scooby doo ! (we don&#8217;t have TV at home.. so I catch up when I visit here.. .. and Sam loved scooby doo:-)<\/p>\n<p>note all, nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/nov1211\/IMG_6519.jpg?w=474\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy 77th birthday Grandpa Gabe..\u00a0 (It&#8217;s also Max&#8217;s Girlfriend Jac&#8217;s birthday.. as well as Neil Young&#8217;s and Charles Manson&#8217;s ) Diane&#8217;s dad is 77 today.. we&#8217;re down in Endicott to celebrate with him.\u00a0 He&#8217;s such a great guy.. kind, gentle and smart. He&#8217;s been a machinist for 60 years and has taught me much over &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2011\/11\/12\/saturday-night-happy-birthday-grandpa-gabe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saturday night &#8211; Happy birthday Grandpa Gabe<\/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":[317],"class_list":["post-3064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-happy-birthday-grandpa-gabe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064","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=3064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3066,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions\/3066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}