{"id":3842,"date":"2010-08-28T14:00:45","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T18:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/?p=3842"},"modified":"2010-08-28T14:00:45","modified_gmt":"2010-08-28T18:00:45","slug":"the-luckiest-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2010\/08\/28\/the-luckiest-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The Luckiest Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sog\/3631749277\/\" title=\"self portrait(s) by sogrady, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3319\/3631749277_fc9e0ebf17.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"336\" alt=\"self portrait(s)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<i>Me and my wife been married thirty-one years. No children. We lost a girl but I wont talk about that. I served two terms and then we moved to Denton Texas. Jack used to say that bein sheriff was one of the best jobs you could have and bein a ex-sheriff one of the worst. Maybe lots of things is like that. We stayed gone and stayed gone. I done different things. Was a detective on the railroad for a while. By that time my wife wasnt all that sure about us coming back here. About me runnin. But she seen I wanted to so that&#8217;s what we done. She&#8217;s a better person than me, which I will admit to anyone that cares to listen. Not that that&#8217;s sayin a whole lot. She&#8217;s a better person than anybody I know. Period. <\/p>\n<p>People think they know what they want but they generally dont. Sometimes if they&#8217;re lucky they&#8217;ll get it anyways. Me I was always lucky. My whole life. I wouldnt be here otherwise. Scrapes I been in. But the day I seen her come out of Kerr&#8217;s Mercantile and cross the street and she passed me and I tipped my hat to her and got just almost a smile back, that was the luckiest. <\/p>\n<p>People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they dont deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things. I dont recall that I ever give the good Lord all that much cause to smile on me. But he did<\/i>.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; <i>Cormac McCarthy<\/i>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I just got married. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Me and my wife been married thirty-one years. No children. We lost a girl but I wont talk about that. I served two terms and then we moved to Denton Texas. Jack used to say that bein sheriff was one of the best jobs you could have and bein a ex-sheriff one of the worst.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}