{"id":52252,"date":"2018-01-18T20:50:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T00:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=52252"},"modified":"2018-01-18T20:50:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T00:50:20","slug":"thursday-night-easy-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2018\/01\/18\/thursday-night-easy-tears\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday night \u2013 easy tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Thursday night \u2013 he&#8217;s in tears it&#8217;s been a strange week\u2026 Very satisfying in some ways from work and very troubling and others\u2026 Usual stuff and unusual stuff all mixed together. One thing I noticed is that I &nbsp;found myself crying a lot\u2026 That&#8217;s strange for me. As with most guys, crying &nbsp;doesn&#8217;t come very easy &nbsp;or often to me .\u2026 But this week it happened. &nbsp;Quite a lot\u2026 actually. &nbsp;Once.. no wait, maybe twice &#8230; with the sad dream, a couple of times over sad poems (Mary Oliver mostly)\u2026 Once on a phone call with a friend who mentioned a city I associate with sadness. &nbsp;A few times on sad news from people close to me. Even a work situation\u2026 Imagine that.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Once on a phone call with a friend who mentioned a city I associate with sadness. Even a work situation\u2026 Imagine that.<\/p>\n<p>None of these were because I was particularly sad\u2026 Life is actually pretty good right now and I feel reasonably happy\u2026( knock on &nbsp;simulated wood grained furniture)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;And then I &#8220;remembered&#8221;\u2026 That my mother-in-law marcia just died. I say &#8220;remembered&#8221; because of course I remember\u2026 But somehow I had nit associated the sadness coming up through all those in channels\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Our brains and hearts are amazing instrument arent they ?<\/p>\n<p>Nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Thursday night \u2013 he&#8217;s in tears it&#8217;s been a strange week\u2026 Very satisfying in some ways from work and very troubling and others\u2026 Usual stuff and unusual stuff all mixed together. One thing I noticed is that I &nbsp;found myself crying a lot\u2026 That&#8217;s strange for me. As with most guys, crying &nbsp;doesn&#8217;t come very &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2018\/01\/18\/thursday-night-easy-tears\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday night \u2013 easy tears<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-52252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52252","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=52252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52253,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52252\/revisions\/52253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}