{"id":70569,"date":"2019-12-12T23:47:52","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T03:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=70569"},"modified":"2019-12-12T23:47:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T03:47:53","slug":"thursday-night-fathers-forever-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2019\/12\/12\/thursday-night-fathers-forever-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday night \u2013 fathers forever"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tonight was the fathers forever Christmas gathering. Fathers forever is a group I joined right after Sam died. Our common thread is that we’ve had all had children who have died. It’s a great group of guys\u2026 Some old-timers and some new people with fresh wounds. It’s an almost magical gathering\u2026 We get around and talk about all sorts of things not just our common tragedy\u2026 But our lives, our hobbies\u2026 Sports (though I suck at that)\u2026 Etc.<\/p>\n

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After eating our weight in pizza\u2026 We all gathered to check in. Steve took us through the lighting of the menorah with his son Jarrod had made\u2026 It was pretty touching. It was kind of interesting since so few of us are actually Jewish\u2026 It didn’t matter.<\/p>\n

It also didn’t matter but Hanukkah is still two weeks away :-)\ufffc<\/p>\n

We had Christians,\ufffcJews,\ufffc\ufffc\ufffcHindus, Muslims\u2026 And I suspect quite a few atheists.\u2026 We all had various spiritual transformations after our children passed<\/p>\n

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From that point we all stood around and told funny stories about our kids\u2026 It was wonderful and sad\u2026 Mostly really really funny. I told the story about Sam’s broken elbow after I threw them up and forgot to catch\ufffc him<\/p>\n

After that circle time\u2026 We hung around and looked at each other’s pictures and got caught up.\u2026<\/p>\n

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I Left feeling both happy and sad\u2026 And knowing a little bit more about Adrian, John Junior, Jared, Talia, Stephan, Anya, Annie, Samantha, and all the others<\/p>\n

\ufffc\ufffcnite all, nite Sam<\/p>\n

-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tonight was the fathers forever Christmas gathering. Fathers forever is a group I joined right after Sam died. Our common thread is that we’ve had all had children who have died. It’s a great group of guys\u2026 Some old-timers and some new people with fresh wounds. It’s an almost magical gathering\u2026 We get around and … Continue reading Thursday night \u2013 fathers forever<\/span> →<\/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-70569","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\/70569","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=70569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70570,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70569\/revisions\/70570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}