{"id":3979,"date":"2005-12-01T16:43:30","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T21:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3979"},"modified":"2010-07-13T22:17:20","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T02:17:20","slug":"dec-1-world-aids-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3979","title":{"rendered":"Dec. 1 \u2013 World AIDS Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In memory of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/abillings\/138070.html\">Ginger<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In memory of <a href=\"http:\/\/seveninchesofsense.mu.nu\/archives\/140140.php\">&#8220;S&#8221;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In memory of Joey.  Oh, Joey!!  The sweet hilarious blonde boy I knew. (I mean &#8230; he was not just your garden variety funny &#8211; but HILARIOUS &#8211; There was one infamous New Year&#8217;s Eve party &#8211; remember, Ann Marie?? &#8220;These Oreos are <i>insanely<\/i> delicious!&#8221; &#8211; when he made me laugh so hard I literally thought I might asphyxiate myself) .<\/p>\n<p>In memory of Michael.  Talented, serious, committed.  Mature for his years.<\/p>\n<p>Two young men who died way too soon.<\/p>\n<p>In memory of all those who have passed on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trent.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/world-aids-day-2005.html\">Trent has a bunch of links up<\/a> to organizations and memorial sites.  Please go over and check them out.<\/p>\n<p>Today I am keeping in my hearts my friends who lived through hell.  My friends who saw their entire friend-base wiped out.  People who had 10, 15, 20 of their friends die.  I cannot even imagine.<\/p>\n<p>I am also keeping in my heart a prayer for my two dear friends who live with this disease on a daily basis.  Who have it, who stare that monster in the face every day, who are courageous in ways I can only guess at.<\/p>\n<p>You two are my spirit warriors.  I love you both more than I can even say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In memory of Ginger. In memory of &#8220;S&#8221;. In memory of Joey. Oh, Joey!! The sweet hilarious blonde boy I knew. (I mean &#8230; he was not just your garden variety funny &#8211; but HILARIOUS &#8211; There was one infamous &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3979\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3979\">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\/3979"}],"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=3979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19968,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979\/revisions\/19968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}