{"id":114802,"date":"2014-02-08T16:08:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T21:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/114802\/facing-death\/"},"modified":"2014-02-08T16:08:33","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T21:08:33","slug":"facing-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/114802\/facing-death\/","title":{"rendered":"facing death and other types of loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">other than my parents and other relatives, no one really close to me has passed away&#8230;unless I&#8217;m blocking out somebody&#8230;JH (the open mic host) and I were almost kinda close&#8230;Perhaps it&#8217;s the word &#8220;close&#8221; that&#8217;s causing problems&#8230;anyway, a friend of mine (we met in high school) had a stroke earlier this week&#8230;I&#8217;ve been told it&#8217;s very bad&#8230;the prognosis is not good&#8230;I haven&#8217;t heard anything since yesterday, but I have a gut feeling that he&#8217;s gone&#8211;there was an operation this morning&#8230;he and I were in a band together just about the time I got outta high school&#8230;we went our very separate ways until we reconnected on FB&#8230;there&#8217;s been at least one face to face reunion since&#8230;hopefully, he&#8217;ll fully recover&#8211;however long that will take&#8230;the waiting IS the hardest part&#8230;<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">LATER&#8211;SLR wants to rehearse tomorrow (Sunday) but *I* don&#8217;t&#8230;it&#8217;s not just being distracted by everything that&#8217;s going on in my Life right now&#8230;PLAYING Music just doesn&#8217;t mean as much to me as it used to&#8230;Frankly, whatever money I make from the gig next week is more important to me than &#8220;moving people&#8221; or transforming someone&#8217;s Life&#8230;Of course I&#8217;m scared to tell SLR anything&#8230;Not because she might cry but because she&#8217;ll likely get angry&#8230;THAT is what I&#8217;m worried about&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>other than my parents and other relatives, no one really close to me has passed away&#8230;unless I&#8217;m blocking out somebody&#8230;JH (the open mic host) and I were almost kinda close&#8230;Perhaps it&#8217;s the word &#8220;close&#8221; that&#8217;s causing problems&#8230;anyway, a friend of mine (we met in high school) had a stroke earlier this week&#8230;I&#8217;ve been told it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}