{"id":115143,"date":"2014-02-28T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/115143\/death-3\/"},"modified":"2014-02-28T08:05:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T13:05:00","slug":"death-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/115143\/death-3\/","title":{"rendered":"death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">the recent death of an old friend feels like a wake-up call to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">me<\/span>&#8230;to use a baseball analogy, it feels like strike two&#8230;strike one was my ending up in the hospital a few years back with BP that was 200something over 100something&#8230;I&#8217;m pretty sure he would appreciate the analogy&#8211;he was a baseball fan&#8230;in fact, one year not too long ago, he and another friend took me to an Orioles game for my birthday&#8211;a pleasant surprise&#8230;and a good compromise between making a big deal outta my birthday and ignoring it&#8230;anyway, I&#8217;m making a conscious effort (slowly but surely) to change my eating habits&#8230;I dunno why, I don&#8217;t currently have a strong desire to live anyway&#8230;but I do wanna make it to Skip&#8217;s funeral next Tuesday&#8230;if the weather doesn&#8217;t stop me&#8230;<br \/>\n <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">it may be wrong to look forward to a funeral, but I am looking forward to seeing an old friend or two there&#8230;what&#8217;s kinda weird is the idea that I have been to the church once before&#8211;as a member of Koinonia, my first band&#8230;we played a dance there back in 1969 or so&#8230;I think it was in February&#8230;the lead guitar player took his guitar outta the car and opened the case&#8211;the crack went from one strap button to the other; we HEARD it happen&#8230;he put electrical tape on it and it was fine&#8230;when I bought the guitar (for $30) I left the tape on it of course&#8230;<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">I dunno if Skip&#8217;s passing has anything to do with it, but I seem to be a bit more scatterbrained than usual, at least when it comes to the workplace&#8230;and of course, my boss likes to shake my routine up which gets me very distracted&#8230;if only he would leave me alone&#8230;<br \/>\n <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the recent death of an old friend feels like a wake-up call to me&#8230;to use a baseball analogy, it feels like strike two&#8230;strike one was my ending up in the hospital a few years back with BP that was 200something over 100something&#8230;I&#8217;m pretty sure he would appreciate the analogy&#8211;he was a baseball fan&#8230;in fact, one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115143","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=115143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}