{"id":5516,"date":"2013-01-07T19:53:17","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T23:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=5516"},"modified":"2013-01-07T19:53:17","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T23:53:17","slug":"monday-evening-lunch-with-sam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2013\/01\/07\/monday-evening-lunch-with-sam\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday evening &#8211; lunch with Sam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a busy day today.. Back to back meetings then a plane to Raleigh. I had about 30 minutes without a phone glued to my head&#8230; I found myself with 30 minutes of quiet to grab lunch. The house was empty and silent and the sun was streaming in as i heated some leftovers ( Diane&#8217;s  homemade mac and cheese.. the best !) i sat down with my meal and acknowledged, as i always do, the painting of Sam right behind  the kitchen counter. Our friend Coco painted it based on a great photo of Sam from Camp Abnakei. I stared at the painting a bit as i ate&#8230;and thought of Sam&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><center><a href='http:\/\/photo.blogpressapp.com\/show_photo.php?p=13\/01\/07\/2229.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/photo.blogpressapp.com\/photos\/13\/01\/07\/s_2229.jpg' border='0' width='300' height='400' style='margin:5px'><\/a><\/center><br \/>It was so quiet.. Somehow i started to speak.. I began telling Sam about my day&#8230; And about our visit with one of his buddies last night..  I asked him how things were with him&#8230; Didn&#8217;t get an answer.. And didn&#8217;t expect one.. But it felt so good to be talking with him out load.. .. I looked at my phone and noticed i had a call starting .. So i said good bye quickly and ran upstairs and rejoined my busy day,,  sorry to have to run.. But so happy not to have to eat alone now..<\/p>\n<p>Nite all, nite sam<br \/>\n-men<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Posted using BlogPress from my iPad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a busy day today.. Back to back meetings then a plane to Raleigh. I had about 30 minutes without a phone glued to my head&#8230; I found myself with 30 minutes of quiet to grab lunch. The house was empty and silent and the sun was streaming in as i heated some leftovers &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2013\/01\/07\/monday-evening-lunch-with-sam\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday evening &#8211; lunch with Sam<\/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-5516","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\/5516","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=5516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5517,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5516\/revisions\/5517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}