{"id":7444,"date":"2013-12-10T02:15:33","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T02:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=7444"},"modified":"2013-12-10T02:15:33","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T02:15:33","slug":"so-he-kicked-it-for-a-long-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/10\/so-he-kicked-it-for-a-long-time\/","title":{"rendered":"so he kicked it for a long time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/stevehely.com\/2013\/12\/07\/eulogy-for-madiba\/\" target=\"_blank\">helytimes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/newsdesk\/nelson-mandela-12.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday I went to meet somebody for lunch at a restaurant here in Los Angeles. \u00a0I got there a little early, it was a sunny day, and this restaurant has a very pleasant outdoor bar. \u00a0So I sat down at the bar and ordered an iced tea.<\/p>\n<p>The bartender was a friendly dude. \u00a0We joked around a little. \u00a0When he came back with my iced tea I was staring at my phone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWould you like to hear some world news?\u201d \u00a0I said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFire away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, Nelson Mandela died.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He thought about this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Hasta luego, brother,<\/strong>\u201d the bartender said.<\/p>\n<p>He went back to work for a bit.<\/p>\n<p>I kept reading my phone. \u00a0A little while later he came back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat else are they saying about Mandela?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, it says here he was 95.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHuh,\u201d said the bartender. \u00a0\u201d<strong>So he kicked it for a long time.<\/strong>\u201c<\/p>\n<p><em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/newsdesk\/2013\/12\/nelson-mandela-a-life-in-photographs.html#slide_ss_0=12\">photo<\/a>: \u201cLong lines of people outside the polling station in the black township of Soweto, a southwest suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, on April 27, 1994. Photograph by Denis Farrell\/AP.\u201d)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from helytimes: Thursday I went to meet somebody for lunch at a restaurant here in Los Angeles. \u00a0I got there a little early, it was a sunny day, and this restaurant has a very pleasant outdoor bar. \u00a0So I sat down at the bar and ordered an iced tea. The bartender was a friendly dude. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7446,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7444\/revisions\/7446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}