{"id":1340,"date":"2019-01-23T08:42:22","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T16:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2019-01-23T08:42:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T16:42:22","slug":"norm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/2019\/01\/23\/norm\/","title":{"rendered":"Norm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I met a lot of new people last spring as Sepi and I were beginning our life together. One of them was Norm. Norm was married to a woman who had been City Manager when Sepi was Mayor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Norm&#8217;s posture was quite stooped over in a way that reminded me of Dad so I started to talk to him about it. Unlike Dad&#8217;s, his condition had come up rather suddenly the previous fall. As recently as a year previous, he had been in robust health and was quite active.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember if he knew at the time what it was. More likely he just didn&#8217;t tell me that it was ALS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Norm died last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I only saw Norm one other time. It was at a birthday party a few weeks later. In that short time he had deteriorated markedly. He was having great difficulty holding his head up and speaking. In that first conversation, though, we bonded in a mysterious way. When Sepi shared the news of Norm&#8217;s death with me, I got choked up in a way that I didn&#8217;t with Dad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/29694722_1913020208732343_1357719168916389888_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1341\" width=\"519\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/29694722_1913020208732343_1357719168916389888_n.jpg 960w, http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/29694722_1913020208732343_1357719168916389888_n-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/29694722_1913020208732343_1357719168916389888_n-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Sepi talked to Robin yesterday. She said Robin told her how Norm had read my blog regularly and how much he had enjoyed it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you, Norm! Your friendship was brief but brilliant. Rest in Peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met a lot of new people last spring as Sepi and I were beginning our life together. One of them was Norm. Norm was married to a woman who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[19,578,533],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-as-we-know-it","tag-dad","tag-norm-t","tag-sepi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1343,"href":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions\/1343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}