{"id":115081,"date":"2014-02-25T21:50:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T02:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/115081\/and-thats-that\/"},"modified":"2014-02-25T21:50:40","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T02:50:40","slug":"and-thats-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/115081\/and-thats-that\/","title":{"rendered":"and that&#8217;s that&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">a friend from high school died this morning&#8230;he had a stroke a week or so ago&#8230;the plan was to move him to a hospice this week&#8230;the doctors were giving him &#8220;comfort drugs&#8221;; they said he might have about 2 weeks left&#8230;after having gone our separate ways, and the passing of several years, he and I reunited on Facebook a couple of years ago, maybe more&#8230;there was also a face to face meeting, and a birthday surprise cooked up by him and another high school friend of ours&#8230;we went to a Balmer Orioles game at Camden Yards&#8211;we took the Light Rail&#8230;<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">I wanted to visit him in the hospital&#8230;and I DIDN&#8217;T wanna visit him in the hospital&#8230;I was planning to go visit him at the hospice&#8230;I didn&#8217;t really wanna do THAT either, but it felt like the right thing to do&#8230;I don&#8217;t know if he would have known I was there or even who I was; but just in case, I wanted to go&#8230;now I feel like I should go to his funeral&#8230;the roomie is willing to allow that, UNLESS it&#8217;s this coming Friday&#8230;place yer bets&#8230;I bet it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">will <\/span>be this Friday&#8230;if I was a praying man&#8230;well, I woulda prayed that Skip get better&#8230;I&#8217;m just hoping the funeral will be on Thursday so I can go&#8230;<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">UPDATE&#8211;the funeral is a week from yesterday, I think I&#8217;ll be able to go&#8230;I&#8217;m not even gonna ask about going to any of the viewings&#8230;and I don&#8217;t really wanna go to those anyway&#8230;strange as it seems, I feel like I need &#8220;closure&#8221; on this&#8230;<br \/>\n <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">I had a talk with SLR earlier today&#8230;I kinda sorta in a way told her that I was not really into playing with her anymore&#8230;I didn&#8217;t exactly tell her why&#8230;and like I&#8217;ve said here before, I don&#8217;t feel like playing Music with ANYBODY except maybe Lou&#8230;but apparently Lou doesn&#8217;t wanna play with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">me<\/span> anymore&#8230;I have no idea why&#8230;I hate mysteries&#8230;<br \/>\n <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a friend from high school died this morning&#8230;he had a stroke a week or so ago&#8230;the plan was to move him to a hospice this week&#8230;the doctors were giving him &#8220;comfort drugs&#8221;; they said he might have about 2 weeks left&#8230;after having gone our separate ways, and the passing of several years, he and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115081","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=115081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}