{"id":6494,"date":"2013-06-06T21:22:15","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T01:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=6494"},"modified":"2013-06-06T21:22:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T01:22:17","slug":"thursday-night-sam-cohn-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2013\/06\/06\/thursday-night-sam-cohn-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday night &#8211; sam cohn awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> This morning before work  diane, gabe and i gave out the sixth annual Sam Cohn awards at the Mount  Mansfield honors ceremony. Each year we give out 2 awards: the sam cohn bolton mountain award and the sam cohn musical soul award. we let the school pick the two kids. <\/p>\n<div class=separator style=text-align: center;clear: both; ><a href=http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/wpid-Photo-Jun-6-2013-907-AM.jpg target=_blank style=><img src=http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/wpid-Photo-Jun-6-2013-907-AM.jpg id=blogsy-1370568135068.5293 class=alignnone width=500 height=373 alt=><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The first award covers a season pass, rentals anda helmet   to ride or ski all season at Bolton.. We give this award because sam just loved that mountain, he was up there every day he could be..<\/p>\n<p>    The second award, is the  musical soul award.. We give it because sam was a natural musician.. Like both his brothers. Sam was a great classical musician and played  electric bass and guitar for a head banging metal band .black night vengence. The winner of this award gets to pick a guitar or bass , electric or acoustic of their choice from advanced music. The only stipulation is that the instrument never be used to play elton john or billy joel. (. Because sam thought they sucked.. )<\/p>\n<div class=separator style=clear: both; text-align: none;>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>When thr time came, gabe introduced us and told the kids who sam was.. At this point, none of them would have known sam&#8230;.. A strange thought for me&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=separator style=text-align: center;clear: both; ><a href=http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/wpid-Photo-Jun-6-2013-907-AM1.jpg target=_blank style=><img src=http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/wpid-Photo-Jun-6-2013-907-AM1.jpg id=blogsy-1370568135128.6167 class=alignnone width=500 height=373 alt=><\/a><\/div>\n<p style=text-align: left;> Then i introduced the awards and diane announced the winners&#8230; I was fast and smooth.. Fun and sad all at the same time.<\/p>\n<p style=text-align: left;>Two great kids won the awards this year&#8230;  They were. Happy to get the awards and we we happy to give them.<\/p>\n<p style=text-align: left;>I walked out of that school marveling that i had done this 6 times already..and it still feels surreal&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=text-align: left;>..and i suppose it always will<\/p>\n<p style=text-align: left;>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=text-align: left;>Nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n<p style=text-align: left;>-me<\/p>\n<div class=separator style=clear: both; text-align: none;>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>This morning before work diane, gabe and i gave out the sixth annual Sam Cohn awards at the Mount Mansfield honors ceremony. Each year we give out 2 awards: the sam cohn bolton mountain award and the sam cohn musical soul award. we let the school pick the two kids. &nbsp; The first award covers &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2013\/06\/06\/thursday-night-sam-cohn-awards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday night &#8211; sam cohn awards<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6494","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\/6494","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=6494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}