{"id":747,"date":"2013-07-28T16:46:40","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T21:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/?p=747"},"modified":"2013-08-10T08:36:42","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T13:36:42","slug":"comedy-and-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/comedy-and-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"comedy and tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>...when the comedian pulls up in the Winnebago, I hop in. We chat and get acquainted while his two cats prowl around in&nbsp;back.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A few hours on the road and I realize we\u2019re not going to get back home in time for me to help out with the baby\u2019s bedtime. I\u2019m embarrassed to say anything, I don\u2019t want to appear unprofessional.<\/p>\n<p>We arrive at the venue \u2014 an old theater in Charleston, West Virginia. A few people are already in the balcony seats, waiting for the show to&nbsp;begin.<\/p>\n<p>While the comedian gets ready to go onstage, I call my wife to apologize and break the&nbsp;news.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dquo\">\u201c<\/span>I should be back around midnight,\u201d I tell her. Then I remember the driving time. \u201cActually, it\u2019ll probably be later than&nbsp;that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She is annoyed, rightfully so. But she doesn\u2019t press the&nbsp;point.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I feel terrible and offer to rent a car so I can return early.<\/p>\n<p>She hesitates before answering. \u201cI wasn\u2019t going to say anything, but...\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She tells me that there\u2019s been an accident. The father of the two girls who lives across the way fell from their balcony and&nbsp;died.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Somehow I recall an earlier dream, while dreaming this one, in which the man\u2019s mentally disabled brother also died. This family has seen nothing but tragedy, in my dreams.)<\/p>\n<p>I rent a car and, in time, arrive back home. A cloud of sadness hangs over the apartment complex, clinging to everything.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Looking across the way, I can see into the windows of the neighboring apartment where the two little girls play on their bunk bed. I worry that they might&nbsp;fall.<\/p>\n<p>An elderly man comes into their room \u2014 their grandfather, I assume. He moves so slowly, weighed down with age and sorrow.<\/p>\n<p>I make a mental note to go over after dinner and offer to&nbsp;help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>...when the comedian pulls up in the Winnebago, I hop in. We chat and get acquainted while his two cats prowl around in&nbsp;back. A few hours on the road and I realize we\u2019re not going to get back home in time for me to help out with the baby\u2019s bedtime. I\u2019m embarrassed to say anything,&nbsp;[\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[159,54,628,46,116,57,629,630,627,537,631],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams","tag-cats","tag-children","tag-chris-hardwicke","tag-death","tag-driving","tag-guilt","tag-performance","tag-road-trip","tag-the-apartment-across-the-way","tag-theater","tag-winnebago"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":761,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions\/761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}