{"id":18054,"date":"2012-10-29T11:33:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T15:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=18054"},"modified":"2023-04-15T01:08:36","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T05:08:36","slug":"i-knew-this-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=18054","title":{"rendered":"I knew this guy :"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/posts\/18054-1.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>We worked at a library together several years ago. We were never really close, but our friendship did expand beyond the job. He came to my house and we hungout a few times. His personality, while generally quiet and polite, was rather quirky. He was often stressed and depressed in contrast to my carefree demeanor, but we got along well and shared many laughs. He was also a member of the site but barely, if ever, posted.<\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t had any contact with him in years and didn&#8217;t find-out about, or read about, his death until today. I was searching his name on a spur-of-the-moment Google search, hoping to possibly reconnect. He apparently died a few weeks ago, on September 16. That&#8217;s according to <a href=\"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/posts\/18054-2.png\" title=\"his Clora Funeral Home page\">his Clora Funeral Home page<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/posts\/18054-3.png\" title=\"A Facebook post from the Social Justice department of the college he (apparently) graduated from\">A Facebook post from the Social Justice department of the college he (apparently) graduated from<\/a> says he died of pneumonia.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/caviar_diva\"><strong>caviar_diva<\/strong><\/a> :<\/p>\n<p><!-- 2012 October 29 at 11:50 --><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/caviar_diva\/status\/262944398311038976\">We get so busy sometimes we don&#8217;t connect but it doesn&#8217;t mean we don&#8217;t care. I only talk to my BF of 40 yrs 5 times a yr<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We worked at a library together several years ago. We were never really close, but our friendship did expand beyond the job. He came to my house and we hungout a few times. His personality, while generally quiet and polite, was rather quirky. He was often stressed and depressed in contrast to my carefree demeanor, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=18054\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I knew this guy :<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14530],"class_list":["post-18054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-death"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18054"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118533,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18054\/revisions\/118533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}