{"id":5929,"date":"2013-04-16T22:50:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T02:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=5929"},"modified":"2013-04-16T22:50:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T02:50:36","slug":"tuesday-night-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2013\/04\/16\/tuesday-night-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday night \u2013 Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> All day long I&#39;ve tried to avoid looking at the news. I keep getting glimpses of the carnage in Boston and try to look away. Ultimately I&#39;m not able to do that. I look at the articles I see the blood see the smoke see the grieving parents\u2026 I cannot look away.<\/p>\n<p>The magnitude of the tragedy in Boston is made more real to me by the fact that I just lived down the street. I know the streets I know that hills I know the sidestreets. I cannot believe that that could happen so close to where I once lived where my sister and brother lived where my parents now live.<\/p>\n<p>My father ran the Boston Marathon several times. I remember meeting him at the finish line just wear these explosions occurred. I remember going out and eating Japanese or Chinese food each time. I remember how tired and happy he was at the end of those races. That&#39;s a happy memory. <\/p>\n<p>Now the Boston Marathon\u2026 And Patriots&#39; Day are scarred will never be the same. We&#39;ll get through this as everyone says but it Will be a reminder to us just like 9\/11 or the remembrance of any other such terrible day.<\/p>\n<p>My heart goes out to everyone who is impacted by the blasts in Boston\u2026 And I&#39;m guessing that&#39;s everyone who&#39;s reading this.<\/p>\n<p>\nNight all, night Sam<br \/>\n\u2013 Me<\/p>\n<div style=text-align: right; font-size: small; clear: both; id=blogsy_footer><a href=http:\/\/blogsyapp.com target=_blank><img src=http:\/\/blogsyapp.com\/images\/blogsy_footer_icon.png alt=Posted with Blogsy style=vertical-align: middle; margin-right: 5px; width=20 height=20 \/>Posted with Blogsy<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All day long I&#39;ve tried to avoid looking at the news. I keep getting glimpses of the carnage in Boston and try to look away. Ultimately I&#39;m not able to do that. I look at the articles I see the blood see the smoke see the grieving parents\u2026 I cannot look away. The magnitude of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2013\/04\/16\/tuesday-night-boston\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday night \u2013 Boston<\/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-5929","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\/5929","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=5929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}