{"id":342,"date":"2014-01-20T01:07:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/20\/remembering\/"},"modified":"2014-01-20T01:07:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T01:07:00","slug":"remembering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/20\/remembering\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am sitting at a funeral service of a man I did not know well. A person who lived across the street from me for years but who I shared almost no words together.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A few rows in front of me a happy young man is holding up a piece of paper asking us to remember the life of the deceased. There&#8217;s a picture of him on this sheet and it would appear to me that this is the image his family has chosen as the best depiction of his person.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I can&#8217;t help but think of the future and what a document about me look like. What image would my loved ones choose as showig the essence of who I was?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>What if I got to choose my own photo?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Of the hundreds of images that exist and the myriad of photos to come, which is the best example of my life as it was?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s inconsequential though and borders on the egotistical.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Still, I hope they choose a good one.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sitting at a funeral service of a man I did not know well. A person who lived across the street from me for years but who I shared almost no words together. A few rows in front of me a happy young man is holding up a piece of paper asking us to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/20\/remembering\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Remembering&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1010,1007,1011,1008,1009],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}