{"id":286,"date":"2009-09-27T16:23:40","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T13:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/?p=286"},"modified":"2024-05-03T19:44:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T23:44:31","slug":"in-memory-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/in-memory-of\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memory Of"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DSC00045-memory\"<\/a>It always seems that when I see a car in front of me with the dedication of someone passed away, I have mixed feelings.\u00a0 My first reaction. “oh that sucks”.\u00a0 My second reaction is to get close enough to the bumper of the person in front of me so I can read the message clearly.\u00a0 My third reaction is to do the Math and figure out how young the person was that passed away.\u00a0\u00a0 My forth reaction is to imagine how that person could have passed away.\u00a0\u00a0 Was a car accident?\u00a0 House Fire?\u00a0 Disease?\u00a0 Or what.\u00a0 My fith reaction, and this is kind of weird, is to pull up and take a peak on who is driving.\u00a0 Kind of like rubber necking at an auto accident.\u00a0\u00a0 I never get any immediate satisfaction on looking at what the person looks like driving and I really dont even know why\u00a0I do it.\u00a0 I’m always careful to try not to let the person driving see me looking at them.\u00a0 In my mind I figure they get alot of that based on the dedication to someone at their back window.\u00a0 I’m sure if I’m doing it than others must be too.\u00a0 But somehow I find it rude of me.<\/p>\n

I have often pondered, what is the purpose of this public display of affection and loss?\u00a0 I understand the loss of someone close is a terrible thing.\u00a0 Wel.. maybe I just answered my own question.\u00a0 I really\u00a0 DONT understand that because its never happened to me.\u00a0 Maybe I would get solice out of doing the same thing should my young Son or Daugher (23 and 25) were to suddenly pass away.<\/p>\n

But still somehow I feel a disconnect.\u00a0 Unless it happens to me I will never know, but I dont think that is something I would do.\u00a0 Let me make it clear, in this writing, I’m not saying its wrong.\u00a0 Its just odd to me and I find it curious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It always seems that when I see a car in front of me with the dedication of someone passed away, I have mixed feelings.\u00a0 My first reaction. “oh that sucks”.\u00a0 My second reaction is to get close enough to the bumper of the person in front of me so I can read the message clearly.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-dose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":910,"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}