{"id":502,"date":"2009-08-31T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=502"},"modified":"2009-08-31T11:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T11:56:00","slug":"all-i-got-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=502","title":{"rendered":"All I Got Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_t8QqmnputW4\/SpvGEiP_7xI\/AAAAAAAAAH0\/PZIADSM95kU\/s1600-h\/hyannisport_ted.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_t8QqmnputW4\/SpvGEiP_7xI\/AAAAAAAAAH0\/PZIADSM95kU\/s400\/hyannisport_ted.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/><span>I\u2019m still absorbing the impact of <a href=\"http:\/\/tedkennedy.org\/\">Teddy\u2019s<\/a> life and death on our neighborhood, our community, our state, our country, our world. Like Tip said \u201call politics is local.\u201d Ted never forgot that as many seem to.<\/p>\n<p>His nephew was saying that towards the end of his life, Teddy couldn&#8217;t always find the words he wanted. One day out sailing, Teddy started yodelling, something he&#8217;s learned in his younger days. Later that day on land, he touched Bobby&#8217;s arm, smiled and said, \u201cI\u2019m sorry but that\u2019s all I got left.\u201d <\/span><span><\/p>\n<p>So, taking a cue from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/jim-wallis\/the-lion-of-the-senate_b_103322.html\">Lion of the Senate<\/a>, the following from an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alabamachanin.com\/journal\">Alabama Chanin<\/a> blog post is all I got today.<\/span><br \/><span><br \/>While looking out over the water from the balcony of a mansion on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut tells his friend, Joseph Heller, that their host makes more money in a single day than Heller will ever earn from his novel <em><span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0684833395?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wwwalabamacha-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0684833395%22%3ECatch-22%3C\/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wwwalabamacha-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0684833395\"><i><span>Catch-22<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/em>.<\/span> <\/p>\n<div><span>Heller responds, &#8220;Yes, but I have something he will never have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>Vonnegut questions, \u201cWhat\u2019s that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>\u201cEnough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m still absorbing the impact of Teddy\u2019s life and death on our neighborhood, our community, our state, our country, our world. Like Tip said \u201call politics is local.\u201d Ted never forgot that as many seem to. His nephew was saying that towards the end of his life, Teddy couldn&#8217;t always find the words he wanted. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=502\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;All I Got Today&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[631],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}