{"id":138687,"date":"2019-05-04T23:49:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T05:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=138687"},"modified":"2019-05-04T23:49:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T05:49:52","slug":"a-day-in-the-life-4-may-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/04\/a-day-in-the-life-4-may-2019.html","title":{"rendered":"A Day in the Life: 4 May 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three things of note.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. It is, of course, Star Wars Day<\/strong>. “May the Fourth be with you,” as they say. James messaged me that, and when I mentioned it to Mom, who’d never heard it, it drew a chuckle. So totally worth it.\n

    \"\"
    Yes, an awful joke, but it still always draws a chuckle from me.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n
  2. This is the fifth anniversary of Dad’s passing<\/strong>. I don’t talk about it much, even now, though I still think of him often — what he would think of something, how he would enjoy a joke, music he would enjoy, all that kind of thing.\u00a0 I miss him<\/a>.\n

    \"\"
    Dad, with Mom, on a visit to the Denver Botanic Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n
  3. This is the fiftieth (!) anniversary of my First Communion<\/strong>. Which I only remember because the gift I got for it, a St. Christopher medal I wore for many years, had the date engraved on the back: 5-9-69.<\/em>\n

    It’s not something that means quite as much theologically to me as it once did, but it was a huge milestone in my childhood, and that it’s hit that kind of anniversary is … well, once in a lifetime.<\/p>\n

    \"\"
    Ah, the joys of old school photos.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    It was a nice day — sleeping in, running errands with Margie, texting with the boy, dinner out with Mom. Pleasantly domestic and familiar. An odd confluence of anniversaries and events, with an otherwise pleasantly ordinary day, but, then, ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    It’s an odd confluence of events and commemorations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,108,4,372],"tags":[1488,1841],"class_list":["post-138687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-history","category-personal","category-star-wars-media-movies","tag-anniversary","tag-remembrance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/calendar.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44063,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/02\/hooked-on-a-forceling.html","url_meta":{"origin":138687,"position":0},"title":"Hooked on a Forceling","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 2-Aug-14 11:12am","format":false,"excerpt":"Actually, yeah, pretty well done, especially when you punch up the humorous (or unintentionally humorous) aspects. #guardiansofthegalaxy \u00a0 #starwars \u00a0 #gotg \u00a0Reshared post from +Asbj\u00f8rn GrandtA good chuckle :D\ufeff View this post on Google+","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":40192,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/22\/your-star-wars-biology-lesson-for-today.html","url_meta":{"origin":138687,"position":1},"title":"Your Star Wars biology lesson for today","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 22-Dec-13 9:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Heh.(h\/t +Doyce Testerman)Reshared post from +Joke of the Day View this post on Google+","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":135773,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/08\/things-id-like-see-star-wars-movie.html","url_meta":{"origin":138687,"position":2},"title":"Things I’d like to see in a Star Wars movie, too","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 8-Jan-18 1:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"There's nothing here not doable or damaging to the franchise, and lots that would be both cool and, I think, helpful. 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