{"id":96,"date":"2009-09-15T14:08:08","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T14:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darelparker.com\/dp\/?p=96"},"modified":"2010-09-25T18:14:34","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T00:14:34","slug":"goodbye-bodhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darelparker.com\/dp\/goodbye-bodhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Bodhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-97\" title=\"patrick_swayze_bodhi_point_break\" src=\"http:\/\/www.darelparker.com\/dp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/patrick_swayze_bodhi_point_break.jpg\" alt=\"patrick_swayze_bodhi_point_break\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Patrick Swayze, star of stage and screen, died yesterday of pancreatic cancer.\u00a0 He was 57.<\/p>\n<p>Most of you guys in my age group will remember Patrick Swayze from his roles in Dirty Dancing and Ghost, and of course as the nice-guy bouncer who politely beats the crap out of bad guys in Roadhouse.<\/p>\n<p>In my mind however, he will always be remembered as Bodhi from Point Break.\u00a0 Laugh if you want, but that movie, and especially the character he portrayed, gave me more cause for thought than the dozens of philosophy text books I read in college.<\/p>\n<p><em>Vaya con dios brah.<\/em><\/p>\n<a class=\"addthis_button\" href=\"http:\/\/addthis.com\/bookmark.php?v=250\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/static\/btn\/v2\/lg-share-en.gif\" width=\"125\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Bookmark and Share\" style=\"border:0\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Swayze, star of stage and screen, died yesterday of pancreatic cancer.\u00a0 He was 57. Most of you guys in my age group will remember&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.darelparker.com\/dp\/goodbye-bodhi\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Goodbye Bodhi<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darelparker.com\/dp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darelparker.com\/dp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darelparker.com\/dp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darelparker.com\/dp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darelparker.com\/dp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.darelparker.com\/dp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206,"href":"https:\/\/www.darelparker.com\/dp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darelparker.com\/dp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darelparker.com\/dp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darelparker.com\/dp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darelparker.com\/dp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}