{"id":3819,"date":"2005-11-02T16:46:26","date_gmt":"2005-11-02T21:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3819"},"modified":"2022-10-09T20:32:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T00:32:35","slug":"love-dreams-and-congratulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3819","title":{"rendered":"Love, Dreams and Congratulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/abillings\/126637.html\">A beautiful post by my dear friend Alex<\/a> &#8211; who was just inducted into the Gay and Lesbian Hall Of Fame.  She describes the ceremony as only she can.  My heart was full reading it.<\/p>\n<p>Thinking of Mitchell working the room just makes me soooo happy.  If I had been there, I suppose he would have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3764\">forced me to go get some random person&#8217;s autograph <\/a>or something &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m in tears because of this paragraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I stared at Chrisanne, who had parked the car and made it in time to see me get my award. She was beaming. 29 years we\u0092ve been together. 29 years of fights, make ups, lies, lost loves, ignorance, tolerance, secrets, bad jokes, food, and lots of hope and prayers. All of that, summed up in a bout 15 seconds. I took the award, and made it down the stairs. No tripping, and lucky for the audience, I didn\u0092t speak. I hadn\u0092t written anything down, and God help me if they ask me to improvise.<\/p>\n<p>I sat in my seat with Chrisanne directly behind me. I could literally feel her smiling. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you know Chrisanne, then you know that her smile is one of the warmest smiles on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>And the image of Alex feeling Chrisanne&#8217;s smile &#8211; even though she wasn&#8217;t looking directly at her &#8230; I so get that.  I so get the love there.  It&#8217;s piercing.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Alex.  (Or, as Mayor Daley calls you, &#8220;Ms. Alexandra&#8221;!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A beautiful post by my dear friend Alex &#8211; who was just inducted into the Gay and Lesbian Hall Of Fame. She describes the ceremony as only she can. My heart was full reading it. Thinking of Mitchell working the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3819\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[600],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3819"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178752,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3819\/revisions\/178752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}