{"id":66587,"date":"2019-06-21T21:30:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T01:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2019\/06\/21\/friday-night-longest-day\/"},"modified":"2019-06-21T21:30:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T01:30:24","slug":"friday-night-longest-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2019\/06\/21\/friday-night-longest-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday night &#8211; longest day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the solstice.. the longest day of the year. I packed it with a crazy array of meetings .  My 2nd meeting of the day turned out to be particularly interesting. My friend Mohamed who I hadn&#8217;t seen in more than 15 years called me out of the blue. His son has been admitted to UVM and they were up at admitted student   Day.  He called me because i was the first number with an 802 area code . We met at a nice cafe and started catching up.. it occurred to me that he didn&#8217;t know about Sam. As I told him, I could tell he hadn&#8217;t heard .. but I saw there was more . He told me that his eldest daughter died 7 years ago. It was a weird shock as that sink in for both of us .<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We spent the next hour and a half  sharing stories about grief , healing , our families work<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was so great to reconnect .. even over shared tragedy<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s made us both more open<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_2090.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-66586\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_2090.jpg 4032w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_2090.jpg 150w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_2090.jpg 300w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_2090.jpg 768w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_2090.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_2090.jpg 948w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_2090.jpg 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_2096.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-66585\" width=\"2320\" height=\"3088\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_2096.jpg 2320w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_2096.jpg 113w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_2096.jpg 225w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_2096.jpg 768w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_2096.jpg 769w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_2096.jpg 948w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_2096.jpg 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ok.. it&#8217;s dark out<\/p>\n<p>.. it&#8217;s the start of the shortest night<\/p>\n<p>Nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the solstice.. the longest day of the year. I packed it with a crazy array of meetings . My 2nd meeting of the day turned out to be particularly interesting. My friend Mohamed who I hadn&#8217;t seen in more than 15 years called me out of the blue. His son has been admitted &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2019\/06\/21\/friday-night-longest-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday night &#8211; longest day<\/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-66587","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\/66587","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=66587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}