{"id":73,"date":"2005-05-02T00:00:31","date_gmt":"2005-05-02T07:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4gi.wtf\/wp\/?p=73"},"modified":"2021-12-08T10:17:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T18:17:25","slug":"vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>They leave.\r\nOften too soon. They\r\nleave us behind with the\r\nthousand daily sorrows\r\nand joys of our lives.\r\nWe speak of their big\r\nthings, their public\r\nthings, how they made\r\na small difference for\r\nmany or, perhaps, a big\r\ndifference for one.\r\nOr two. We remember\r\nsmaller things, glances,\r\nwords, understandings,\r\nknowledge of presence\r\neven when contact was\r\ndeferred for the trivial.\r\nWe speak of accomplishments.\r\nWe remember stories.\r\n\r\nThey leave.\r\nLeave spaces in our\r\nworld where once they\r\nlived with such vivid\r\nreality that they could\r\nbe safely ignored for\r\ngreat spans of time.\r\nNow those vacated\r\nspaces call to our\r\nlonging.\r\n\r\nThey leave.\r\nWe do not grieve\r\nfor them but for left\r\nbehinds who can but\r\nembrace faith that we\r\nmight in some different\r\neternity fill parts of\r\none another's worlds \r\nonce again.\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>&#8212; <span class=\"twikiNewLink\"><a title=\"RonRisley (this topic does not yet exist; you can create it)\" href=\"http:\/\/looseassociations.com\/twiki\/bin\/edit\/Main\/RonRisley?topicparent=Looseassociations.Vacation;nowysiwyg=0\" rel=\"nofollow\">RonRisley<\/a><\/span> &#8211; 02 May 2005<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They leave. Often too soon. They leave us behind with the thousand daily sorrows and joys of our lives. We speak of their big things, their public things, how they made a small difference for many or, perhaps, a big difference for one. Or two. We remember smaller things, glances, words, understandings, knowledge of presence &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/?p=73\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vacation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}