{"id":4105,"date":"2012-05-25T00:17:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T04:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=4105"},"modified":"2012-05-25T00:17:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T04:17:51","slug":"thursday-night-slowing-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2012\/05\/25\/thursday-night-slowing-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday night &#8211; slowing down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s late thursday night.. it&#8217;s warm and windy out and I&#8217;m winding down for the week. Tomorrow is a work day.. but I&#8217;m hoping to take most of it off. Monday we will mark Sam&#8217;s 20th birthday. 20 is a big  milestone for anyone.. for Sam.. and for us..this seems like it has special significance.. .Though I&#8217;m trying to figure out just how I feel about it..  As Diane would say.. i don&#8217;t need to think or figure out.. I just need to &#8216;be&#8217; .. the day will come and pass just like all the other birthdays since Sam&#8217;s passing.. .. just like all the other days. Birthdays do reinforce the passing of time.. Birthdays bring lots of folks who check in on us on how were doing..   which is nice.   I have to say that we&#8217;re all doing pretty well&#8230; not just &#8216;pretty well considering&#8217;.. but actually pretty well. we&#8217;re living overly busy and mostly very happy lives. Never as happy as when Sam was here with us.. but full lives nonetheless. There was a time where I felt a little bit that being happy somehow was not respectful of Sam&#8217;s memory. over the years.. that has completely reversed. I know that Sam would want us to be happy.. and I want to honor that.<br \/>\n    These next few days will be tough.. but we&#8217;ll see many good friends.. we&#8217;ll share good memories of Sam.. we&#8217;ll toast him, we&#8217;ll make samstones.. we&#8217;ll make big fires.. When the weekend is past it will eb time to gear back uo. but for right now.. I just need to slow down&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>all for now..<\/p>\n<p>nite all, nite sam<br \/>\n-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s late thursday night.. it&#8217;s warm and windy out and I&#8217;m winding down for the week. Tomorrow is a work day.. but I&#8217;m hoping to take most of it off. Monday we will mark Sam&#8217;s 20th birthday. 20 is a big milestone for anyone.. for Sam.. and for us..this seems like it has special significance.. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2012\/05\/25\/thursday-night-slowing-down\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday night &#8211; slowing down<\/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":[503],"class_list":["post-4105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-slowing-down"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105","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=4105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4107,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105\/revisions\/4107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}