{"id":90889,"date":"2022-11-21T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T01:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=90889"},"modified":"2022-11-30T21:32:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T01:32:19","slug":"monday-night-sams-yahrzeit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2022\/11\/21\/monday-night-sams-yahrzeit\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday night – Sam’s yahrzeit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Today was Sam’s Yahrzeit.. the day we mark that he died. We spent the day with him as the transplant team went. to work finding out how Sam’s strong organs could help others live. Diane and I slept in the hospital room.. what little we slept… and talked to Sam. It was clear to us that he was there.. but not in his body.<\/p>\n

16 years later I still cant believe that day. It was an unreal time. <\/p>\n

I have spoken to Sam in that same way every day in the past 16 years .  Today I spoke to him from one of his favorite places, Bolton.  Diane and I took a long hike up  to Butler’s lodge then cut over Heavenly Highway and the  to Wilderness lift and down the mountain. It was freezing cold with high wind.. the weather Sam loved. <\/p>\n

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As is my custom, I lit a candle for Sam and let it burn all day..  I used one of the Lanterns  that the Haunted Forest folks made for us in Sam’s memory.. I walked around the house looking at pictures of Sam. What a beautiful kid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We love you so much Sam. We always will !

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

-me<\/p>\n

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Today was Sam’s Yahrzeit.. the day we mark that he died. We spent the day with him as the transplant team went. to work finding out how Sam’s strong organs could help others live. Diane and I slept in the hospital room.. what little we slept… and talked to Sam. It was clear to us … Continue reading Monday night – Sam’s yahrzeit<\/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-90889","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\/90889","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=90889"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90930,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90889\/revisions\/90930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}