{"id":19626,"date":"2014-06-16T15:03:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T20:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=19626"},"modified":"2014-06-16T21:06:41","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T02:06:41","slug":"my-first-love-visits-me-from-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=19626","title":{"rendered":"My first love visits me from the dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So a very special friend of mine has offered me insight into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=19620\" target=\"_blank\">who this man is<\/a> that has been popping up in my dreams as of late &#8211; it&#8217;s very possibly my first love. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=15273\" target=\"_blank\">Ken McElroy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/obits.nola.com\/obituaries\/nola\/obituary-preview.aspx?pid=147624966\" target=\"_blank\">passed<\/a> a few years ago and yet my memories of him remain as clear as a bell. I found this photo of us taken in my early 20s &#8211; as you can see he fits the dream description of a tall, Viking of a man with a beard and certainly the familiarity with which he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=19611\" target=\"_blank\">kissed and wrapped himself<\/a> around me fit as well. <\/p>\n<p>Tonight, if he shows up again, I will welcome him in my arms. After all, he will always be my first love. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/KenRachel1980.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"19627\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?attachment_id=19627\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/KenRachel1980.jpg?fit=1308%2C1023\" data-orig-size=\"1308,1023\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"KenRachel1980\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/KenRachel1980.jpg?fit=640%2C500\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/KenRachel1980.jpg?resize=640%2C501\" alt=\"KenRachel1980\" width=\"640\" height=\"501\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/KenRachel1980.jpg?w=1308 1308w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/KenRachel1980.jpg?resize=300%2C234 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/KenRachel1980.jpg?resize=1024%2C800 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So a very special friend of mine has offered me insight into who this man is that has been popping up in my dreams as of late &#8211; it&#8217;s very possibly my first love. Ken McElroy passed a few years ago and yet my memories of him remain as clear as a bell. I found this photo of us taken in my early 20s &#8211; as you can see he fits the dream description of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-56y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19626"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19632,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19626\/revisions\/19632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}