{"id":892,"date":"2006-06-10T21:03:35","date_gmt":"2006-06-11T02:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.50.194.231\/~vqplgdbg\/?p=892"},"modified":"2006-06-10T21:03:35","modified_gmt":"2006-06-11T02:03:35","slug":"and-if-l-get-melancholy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=892","title":{"rendered":"“and if l get melancholy,"},"content":{"rendered":"

which can happen,I expect you to be
\nmy companion and solace me.”<\/p>\n

Ben Rumson to Pardner, Paint your wagon, 1969<\/p>\n

I like a musical,even though I’m straight, and dad did too- he had a big booming baritone, which could be crystal clear or gravelly and whiskey rough depending on his mood and his health. <\/p>\n

Dad would sing the songs from those movies, movies he and mom had gone to see together, some when they were new. In the June before he died, he’d had some back trouble due to an injury at work, and I spent a weekend with him while mom visited with family, he’d just bought a new VCR and we rented “Paint Your Wagon” (In which Clint Eastwood actually sings) (and sings fairly well, too) and we watched it together We watched “Hotel New Hampshire” that weekend as well, I was cooking for him as he couldn’t get around well. We were eating mostly bluegills frozen from the summer before, and beans and cornbread. <\/p>\n

Times like these, that dreadful melancholy spreads over me like a pall, thinking that he’ll never get to know how wonderful my daughter is, and how she’ll never know him. Then I think, He already knows her pretty well. And she’ll learn about him from me, I’ll make her feel his presence by telling her everything I can about him. <\/p>\n

I owe him that much, at least. I owe her that much, at least. <\/p>\n

Hang on to every moment with everyone you love, folks. I can’t say this enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

which can happen,I expect you to be my companion and solace me.” Ben Rumson to Pardner, Paint your wagon, 1969 I like a musical,even though I’m straight, and dad did too- he had a big booming baritone, which could be crystal clear or gravelly and whiskey rough depending on his mood and his health. Dad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}