{"id":70167,"date":"2019-11-21T01:56:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T05:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=70167"},"modified":"2019-12-03T00:22:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T04:22:14","slug":"wednesday-night-sam-at-13-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2019\/11\/21\/wednesday-night-sam-at-13-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Night &#8211; Sam at 13 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit\">&nbsp;Just got home from a busy day to a quiet house. Tonight marks the evening &nbsp;13 years ago that Sam left this world. I don&#8217;t know what to say about that.. Only that our Sam is still so much in our lives. We thinking of him. talk of him.. and sometimes I still talk to him.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I just did.. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/nov1907\/samblackonblack.jpg?zoom=2&#038;w=474\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" width=\"457\" height=\"500\"><\/p>\n<p>here&#8217;s what I wrote on this day in 2007.. it feels so much the same today. I can&#8217;t even imagine that its been 13 years..&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit\">It\u2019s just before 9PM on November 20<sup style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit\">th<\/sup>.&nbsp; Sam, exactly one year ago to the hour you started to cross that street with your friends and left this life. I\u2019ve been thinking about&nbsp; you every moment &nbsp;since. I miss you so very much.&nbsp; You always loved life and had the most wonderful gentle and generous spirit. Your spirit continues to do good in the world through us and your many friends..&nbsp; We feel your presence&nbsp; always.You are loved by so many people Sam.. you always will be..&nbsp; Be at peace my son.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit\">-dad<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s <a style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.samstones.org\/music\/sammsg_v3.mp3\">the message<\/a> Sam left on my phone 13 years ago. I love hearing his voice.<\/p>\n<p>I miss you &nbsp;so much my son.. &nbsp;We love you forever !<\/p>\n<p>-dad<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Just got home from a busy day to a quiet house. Tonight marks the evening &nbsp;13 years ago that Sam left this world. I don&#8217;t know what to say about that.. Only that our Sam is still so much in our lives. We thinking of him. talk of him.. and sometimes I still talk to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2019\/11\/21\/wednesday-night-sam-at-13-years\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday Night &#8211; Sam at 13 years<\/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-70167","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\/70167","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=70167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70320,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70167\/revisions\/70320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}