{"id":2372,"date":"2012-09-12T23:22:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T05:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/?p=2372"},"modified":"2012-09-12T23:25:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T05:25:32","slug":"50th-high-school-reunion-rapid-city-sd-sept-78-and-9-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/?p=2372","title":{"rendered":"50th high school reunion, Rapid City, SD. Sept. 7,8 and 9. 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob and I drove out to the Black Hills (an experience in itself &#8212; one does indeed look forward to &#8220;Wall Drug&#8221; after hours in the car without much to look at). The reunion itself was actually quite fun &#8212; seeing all those people again 50 years later.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the link to see the moving experience we had watching a bronze pour in Hill City, SD (then read the little poem I wrote when I came back home)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/Eizc8UPy_M4\">bronze pour<\/a><br \/>\n<em>I am glad I went<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Glad I saw all of us \u2013 who went to school together,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> To see what became of us as we grew up and grew old.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> I could see the basic essence of that young man or young woman<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Now brought to maturity and polished with the seams, mistakes, rough edges<\/em><br \/>\n<em> smoothed out, burnished over like the making of the bronze we watched together.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Everyone was just the same \u2013 what they were underneath \u2013 then in young bodies now in old ones.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It was reassuring to see all of you, my same age, my mirrors, my past, my remindings.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Touch base again, maybe for the last time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sept. 9. 2012<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob and I drove out to the Black Hills (an experience in itself &#8212; one does indeed look forward to &#8220;Wall Drug&#8221; after hours in the car without much to look at). The reunion itself was actually quite fun &#8212; seeing all those people again 50 years later. Click on the link to see the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2372"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2375,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions\/2375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}