{"id":9032,"date":"2013-11-20T20:03:18","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T00:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=9032"},"modified":"2013-11-20T20:03:18","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T00:03:18","slug":"wednesday-night-the-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2013\/11\/20\/wednesday-night-the-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday night &#8211; the call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/155\/437632677_bffb4cd311.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<p>seven\u00a0 years ago tonight we received the call that Sam had been hit by a car&#8230; that moment and the seconds , minutes, hours and days\u00a0 after that\u00a0 call are burned into my heart in a way that I can&#8217;t describe. they&#8217;re part of my memory that I really cant go to even still, yet i can&#8217;t.. and will never&#8230; forget&#8230;\u00a0 \u00a0 i would give anything in the world to be able to go to the day before &#8230; even the minute before, when I could have&#8230; (could have\u00a0 what ? )<\/p>\n<p>what i can go to in times like this is the other call from that day, a call that came earlier..\u00a0 Sam called me that morning, \u00a0 i didn&#8217;t get to pick up the phone, but i got his message on my voicemail&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I carried it around with me until i had to give up that phone&#8230; then I recorded it..\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samstones.org\/music\/sammsg_v3.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">here it is<\/a><\/p>\n<p>the last thing Sam said to me was that he loved me..\u00a0 i can live with that&#8230; i have too<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>good night my beautiful son,\u00a0 you are still so much in our hearts..<\/p>\n<p>we love you<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>seven\u00a0 years ago tonight we received the call that Sam had been hit by a car&#8230; that moment and the seconds , minutes, hours and days\u00a0 after that\u00a0 call are burned into my heart in a way that I can&#8217;t describe. they&#8217;re part of my memory that I really cant go to even still, yet &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2013\/11\/20\/wednesday-night-the-call\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday night &#8211; the call<\/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":[631],"class_list":["post-9032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-the-call"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9032","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=9032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9034,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9032\/revisions\/9034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}