{"id":4089,"date":"2015-11-01T16:32:51","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T23:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steveschwarz.com\/?p=4089"},"modified":"2015-11-02T14:21:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T21:21:16","slug":"november-1st-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/?p=4089","title":{"rendered":"November 1st, 1989"},"content":{"rendered":"

This isn’t a post about photography. It is a post about life and the loss of Life. My father passed away at midnight on November 1st, 1989 after a year-long battle with cancer. I wrote this poem on the sleepless evening before is funeral.<\/h4>\n

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Yesterday-during the wake I felt a need to look at the casket. <\/em><\/h4>\n

But what is the use- as now all that remains is an empty shell. <\/em><\/h4>\n

Like some creatures which shed their skin- my father still lives in my memory. <\/em><\/h4>\n

I can picture his face, his smile, his clothes, how he would sit and how he would sleep. <\/em><\/h4>\n

I can also remember the favorite expressions, foods, idiosynchricies and most importantly our happiness and times together. <\/em><\/h4>\n

So as long as I can remember these details- my father is not dead. <\/em><\/h4>\n

Through the passage of time some details will be forgotten, but my father doesn’t die until the last detail is forgotten. <\/em><\/h4>\n

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\"1987-02-B4\"<\/a> \"1985-08-A17\"<\/a> <\/em><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This isn’t a post about photography. It is a post about life and the loss of Life. My father passed away at midnight on November 1st, 1989 after a year-long battle with cancer. I wrote this poem on the sleepless evening before is funeral.     Yesterday-during the wake I felt a need to look […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-the-universe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4089"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4098,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089\/revisions\/4098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}