{"id":1377,"date":"2007-11-17T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1377"},"modified":"2007-12-29T00:30:17","modified_gmt":"2007-12-29T06:30:17","slug":"joseph-kennedy-reincarnated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/17\/joseph-kennedy-reincarnated\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Kennedy reincarnated?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/Joseph_Kennedy-750885.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/Joseph_Kennedy-750883.jpg?w=840\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer\" border=\"0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>While surfing Wikipedia the other day to study for Tuesday night trivia with Chip&#8230; er, um, I mean Pete, I discovered that Joe Kennedy, patriarch of the Kennedy clan and father of JFK, Robert, and Teddy, died on the day I was born.  Hmmm&#8230; for those who believe in reincarnation, I wonder if I&#8217;m the reborn spirit of Joe Kennedy?<\/p>\n<p>I have no interest in creating a political dynasty like Camelot, but I am pretty proud of the social dynasty I&#8217;ve helped to create in Downtown Memphis over the past several years.  Best group of friends EVER.  I remember at the beginning of 2007, I thought to myself, I wonder how many awesome people we&#8217;ll add to the group this year?  And there have been several.  And there will be even more in 2008.  Maybe if I am Joe Kennedy in a new life, I was born with a different purpose to carry out this time.<\/p>\n<p>More evidence to support the reincarnation theory&#8230; my political views are pretty much in line with the Kennedy clan.  And I admire JFK for hooking up with Marilyn Monroe when he was president.  And I think I could&#8217;ve held my own in a drinking contest with Teddy when he was in his prime.<\/p>\n<p>Just a little hung-over speculation.  Someday I&#8217;m going to have to do a serious post on my views on reincarnation.<\/p>\n<p>Off to the mall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While surfing Wikipedia the other day to study for Tuesday night trivia with Chip&#8230; er, um, I mean Pete, I discovered that Joe Kennedy, patriarch of the Kennedy clan and father of JFK, Robert, and Teddy, died on the day I was born. Hmmm&#8230; for those who believe in reincarnation, I wonder if I&#8217;m the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/17\/joseph-kennedy-reincarnated\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Joseph Kennedy reincarnated?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->