{"id":7098,"date":"2013-08-01T23:37:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T03:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=7098"},"modified":"2013-08-01T23:37:20","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T03:37:20","slug":"thursday-night-time-warp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2013\/08\/01\/thursday-night-time-warp\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday night  &#8211; time warp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the strange part.. when we slowly ease back in to our lives after a tragedy.. Elijah&#8217;s passing last weekend and his funeral yesterday put the whole community in a time warp.. everything slowed down and became less important.. then .. slowly things start to happen again..people get on with their lives, they eat, they sleep.. they even laugh.. all except for the family.. I remember that weird feeling as I noticed time was passing differently.. more quickly.. for everyone around us.. I remember thinking it was both interesting .. and unfair..<\/p>\n<p>I remember how strange I thought it was that people were going to restaurants , watching movies, working in\u00a0 their gardens.. while all I could do was sit and try not to think.. .. My memory is mercifully\u00a0 foggy of the first days and weeks after Sam died. ..\u00a0 then I remember having the sensation of watching\u00a0 the world spin around me..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It was liek I was in some think gunk spinning slowly. while others outside my reach were moving freely .. eventually the gunk started to thin and I started to spin witht h\u00a0 things around me.. sometimes I&#8217;d keep up.. the.. sometimes I was lagging..\u00a0\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know when my speed finally caught up with the world..<\/p>\n<p>I like to think that I&#8217;m fully back in the same time as everyone else now.. but I remember thinking many times that it had.. but then realizing later.. when looking back.. that I was still swimming in the ooze..\u00a0 I guess Ill never knwo where I stand until I&#8217;m looking back&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the strange part.. when we slowly ease back in to our lives after a tragedy.. Elijah&#8217;s passing last weekend and his funeral yesterday put the whole community in a time warp.. everything slowed down and became less important.. then .. slowly things start to happen again..people get on with their lives, they eat, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2013\/08\/01\/thursday-night-time-warp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday night  &#8211; time warp<\/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-7098","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\/7098","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=7098"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7103,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098\/revisions\/7103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}