{"id":8158,"date":"2008-06-16T14:45:11","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T18:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8158"},"modified":"2024-10-27T16:41:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T20:41:23","slug":"the-empty-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8158","title":{"rendered":"The Empty Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Photos from June 15, 2008:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Luke Russert, Tim Russert&#8217;s son, on the set of <i>Meet the Press<\/i> yesterday morning, Father&#8217;s Day, June 15, 2008.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Luke_Russert_2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/Luke_Russert_2.jpg\" width=\"436\" height=\"326\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Luke_Russert.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/Luke_Russert.jpg\" width=\"423\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Luke just graduated from BC a couple weeks ago. My dad went to BC.  We have a big family connection with BC &#8211; my dad having donated tons of books to their library, his entire Francis Stuart collection, among other things.<\/p>\n<p>Those are pretty intense photos, especially for Father&#8217;s Day  &#8211; which I already find almost unbearably intense &#8211; so intense that I block it out in my mind, forgetting that it&#8217;s going on at all.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace, Tim Russert.  It sucks.  I loved him, loved knowing he was there.  I watched <i>Meet the Press<\/i> all the time, and the more I learn about the guy the more I admire him.  My thoughts are with Luke (such an eloquent nice young man &#8211; very impressive!), and Big Russ (loved <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1401359655?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=thesheivari-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1401359655\">that book<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thesheivari-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=1401359655\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>) and Mr. Russert&#8217;s wife.<\/p>\n<p>This one&#8217;s really hitting me hard.<\/p>\n<p>There are normally about 200 flags up at Rockefeller Plaza.  Today all the flagpoles are bare, except for one, and that flag is at half mast today.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos from June 15, 2008: Luke Russert, Tim Russert&#8217;s son, on the set of Meet the Press yesterday morning, Father&#8217;s Day, June 15, 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[174],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158"}],"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=8158"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63175,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158\/revisions\/63175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}