{"id":333,"date":"2014-05-24T18:31:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T18:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/?p=333"},"modified":"2014-05-24T18:31:18","modified_gmt":"2014-05-24T18:31:18","slug":"another-holiday-weekend-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/?p=333","title":{"rendered":"Another holiday weekend is here."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for an old tweet I accidentally stumbled on this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140524-110636-39996939.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140524-110636-39996939.jpg\" alt=\"20140524-110636-39996939.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I suppose the last words a person conveys to somebody could be worse. I hope he knew we always only wanted the best for him, and that we knew he was a good young man. <\/p>\n<p>I finally took the time to get my haircut for the first time since January, and for the first time in over three months I accidentally drove up to Copperhill and Copperstone.  When I got up there, I just kind stared at the tree decorated with with dead flowers,candles and a sign.  Not really sure what just happened despite being there only an hour and a half earlier to begin my Saturday morning like I have for over three months.  I just hadn&#8217;t driven up there. <\/p>\n<p>Something shook me out of it and I went to get my hair cut. I paid and was almost to the car, when one of the stylist ran up to me to tell me how she was about the loss of my son. I asked how she knew him, and she told he used to come in there to get his hair cut.  She said he was always very nice, and was alway a pleasure to have there. He obviously made enough of an impression on her to make the connection. She said she prays for him when she drives by the intersection I had just violated for the time in months.  She gave me hug and ran back inside to continue on with her day. I got in the car and started toward the exit, when I stopped for a moment. Eyes watering up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for an old tweet I accidentally stumbled on this: I suppose the last words a person conveys to somebody could be worse. I hope he knew we always only wanted the best for him, and that we knew he was a good young man. I finally took the time to get my haircut for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/?p=333\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another holiday weekend is here.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334,"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}