{"id":764,"date":"2014-11-05T03:42:24","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T03:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turneyduff2.dev\/?p=764"},"modified":"2014-11-05T03:42:24","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T03:42:24","slug":"the-finality-of-deleting-the-deceased-friends-from-your-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/05\/the-finality-of-deleting-the-deceased-friends-from-your-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"The Finality of Deleting the Deceased Friends from your Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I\u2019m waiting to get my car out of a garage in Midtown when I remember I need to make a call. The attendant pulls my vehicle around and jumps out. I hand him a tip and he smiles and tells me to have a great night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSee you next Monday,\u201d I say. I hop in. Then with my right thumb I press the phone icon, click &#8220;search&#8221; and start to type. M-I\u2014 that\u2019s when I see Uncle Mitch\u2019s name. <\/p>\n<p>I stare at it, forgetting the call I need to make. My eyes blink at the pace of a turn signal as I let out a few short, deep breaths. Beep beep. In my rearview mirror I see a car waiting behind me. I throw my car in drive and pull out. Before I hit the Midtown Tunnel, I feel a tear forming and then slowly rolling down my cheek. By the time I get to the other side of the river I\u2019m sobbing. I\u2019ve thought a lot about Mitch since he passed, but on this particular day I\u2019m not sure if I\u2019ve taken a moment yet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafe.com\/r\/8811f9da-40d5-447d-b478-b58cd9fb3fb7\/1\/after-the-funeral-what-to-do-with-the-phone-contact\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I\u2019m waiting to get my car out of a garage in Midtown when I remember I need to make a call. The attendant pulls my vehicle around and jumps out. I hand him a tip and he smiles and tells me to have a great night. \u201cSee you next Monday,\u201d I say. &#8230; <a title=\"The Finality of Deleting the Deceased Friends from your Phone\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/05\/the-finality-of-deleting-the-deceased-friends-from-your-phone\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Finality of Deleting the Deceased Friends from your Phone\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}