{"id":13184,"date":"2014-03-21T07:16:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T13:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=13184"},"modified":"2014-03-21T07:17:18","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T13:17:18","slug":"feels-like-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/feels-like-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"Feels like yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Amy<\/a>
My sister Amy, outside her apartment in college.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It still feels like yesterday.<\/p>\n

I was sitting in my office, March 21, 2005, at The Belton Journal when I got a call that my sister wasn’t doing well.<\/p>\n

She was in the hospital and expecting to have surgery the next day to have a tumor on her kidney removed.<\/p>\n

Something had gone wrong and the doctors were calling “Code Blue.” At the time of the call I had no idea what that even meant.<\/p>\n

I got up and went for a walk around the block, praying that whatever was happening would turn out OK.<\/p>\n

By the time I was back at my desk the world had changed.<\/p>\n

My sister was gone.<\/p>\n

My friend, my partner in crime, my counselor, my confidant and more was gone.<\/p>\n

It still feels like yesterday.<\/p>\n

Maybe that’s why as I sat feeding my baby daughter yesterday, I half expected to look up and see my sister walk around the corner.<\/p>\n

I half expected to hear my phone ring and see her name pop-up on the caller ID. <\/p>\n

I still half expect to answer the doorbell’s ring and see her standing on my front porch with my boys running to greet her — just like they love to do with their Aunt K — as if she’s only been a way on a long trip.<\/p>\n

Nine years ago seems like such a long time ago – and yet it still feels like yesterday.<\/p>\n

We miss you Amy — always will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It still feels like yesterday. I was sitting in my office, March 21, 2005, at The Belton Journal when I got a call that my sister wasn’t doing well. She was in the hospital and expecting to have surgery the next day to have a tumor on her kidney removed. Something had gone wrong and … Continue reading Feels like yesterday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mi-familia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-3qE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13187,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13184\/revisions\/13187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}