{"id":68498,"date":"2011-10-22T19:49:25","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T23:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/68498\/bittersweet-time-travel\/"},"modified":"2011-10-22T19:49:25","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T23:49:25","slug":"bittersweet-time-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/68498\/bittersweet-time-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"bittersweet time travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">my roommate must be the bestest in the world&#8230;thanx to her perseverance I got TWO pairs of shoes for $20&#8211;at a consignment store&#8230;AND permission to use her vehicle to get to Balmer Monday for a funeral&#8230;my reason for attending has more to do with possibly catching up with certain people, and I&#8217;m slightly ashamed of that&#8230;on the other hand, the Woman who&#8217;s funeral it is would (theoretically) be happy that her oldest son and I were reunited&#8230;I have no idea how this reunion will go&#8230;It&#8217;s possible that her son won&#8217;t (or won&#8217;t WANT TO) remember me&#8230;I think he WILL remember me, but I am not as sure that he&#8217;ll WANT to, it&#8217;s been about 40 years since we last saw each other, save for one brief encounter in the mid(?) 80s&#8230;I strongly suspect we&#8217;re WAY more incompatible now than we were back then&#8230;He helped me become who I am, but our lives now are SO different&#8230;from what little I know, I&#8217;m not sure we&#8217;ll have much to talk about&#8230;So I will prepare for that, and hope for the best&#8230;and I will try my best to be mellow and calm and sedate&#8211;it is a funeral after all&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">almost ALMOST got a new (smart) phone, but didn&#8217;t&#8230;but I SO want to&#8230;soon I hope&#8230;we&#8217;ll see&#8230;a smart phone would allegedly add only $10 to my Monthly phone bill until it was paid for&#8230;I just don&#8217;t have the $50 down payment yet&#8230;<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">ADDENDUM&#8211;a lot can happen in a day or so&#8230;the roommate may have rescinded her offer re: using her car to go to Balmer&#8230;I hope I&#8217;m wrong&#8230;perhaps it&#8217;s because the secondary reason for my going is just as important as the primary reason&#8230;I don&#8217;t like going to funerals, not many people do, right? I think we go to support the family&#8230;Frankly, if I knew now that Marjorie&#8217;s oldest son wasn&#8217;t gonna be there, I wouldn&#8217;t go&#8230;and THAT&#8217;S rather shameful&#8230;Marjorie meant a lot to me, but she won&#8217;t know I was there&#8230;I think my Dad used go to funerals for the same reason&#8211;to play &#8220;catch up&#8221;, and for me that&#8217;s what this is about&#8230;If I&#8217;m supposed to go, I will be allowed to go; that&#8217;s how I see it&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>my roommate must be the bestest in the world&#8230;thanx to her perseverance I got TWO pairs of shoes for $20&#8211;at a consignment store&#8230;AND permission to use her vehicle to get to Balmer Monday for a funeral&#8230;my reason for attending has more to do with possibly catching up with certain people, and I&#8217;m slightly ashamed of [&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-68498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68498","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=68498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}