{"id":598,"date":"2013-06-26T18:04:01","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T18:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stashreport.com\/?p=598"},"modified":"2013-06-26T18:04:01","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T18:04:01","slug":"in-memorandum-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stashreport.com\/?p=598","title":{"rendered":"In Memorandum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stashreport.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/facebook-button-plugin\/images\/standard-facebook-ico.png\" alt=\"Fb-Button\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/stashreport.com\/?p=598\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"225px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p><em><strong>Hi Friends,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Many folks out there are saddened<\/strong> by the recent death of actor James Gandolfini (aka Tony Soprano). He has \u201cshuffled off this mortal coil\u201d and assumed an untimely seat at the head table in that big pasta palace in the sky. What a shame. This poem is my farewell to the big fella.<\/em> <strong><em>Stash<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tony&#8230; We Hardly Knew Ya<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>In a flash, quiet brooding silence<br \/>\nSparked into abrupt and ultra violence.<br \/>\nA gent as large as a grand piano&#8230;<br \/>\nWe all knew the man as Tony Soprano.<\/p>\n<p>Conflicted and wrapped in mother issues&#8230;<br \/>\nPsycho therapy with a box of tissues.<br \/>\nTopless dancers and a myopic wife..<br \/>\nMisfit children sharing a screwed up life.<\/p>\n<p>Garbage hauling with a bit of killing&#8230;<br \/>\nBusiness colleagues all very willing<br \/>\nTo punch a face or smash a head&#8230;<br \/>\n\u201cNegotiating\u201d until someone was dead.<\/p>\n<p>But Tony was lovable, in his bad-boy way&#8230;<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a sad pity that he just couldn\u2019t stay.<br \/>\nHis show ended in vague, uncertain mystery&#8230;<br \/>\nAn inadequate resolution to Soprano history.<\/p>\n<p>Death intrudes. <\/p>\n<p>Reality sometimes mirrors the make believe&#8230;<br \/>\nOnce again, fans feel their need to grieve.<br \/>\nAs with the unclear finale to his show,<br \/>\nWhat might have been&#8230; we\u2019ll never know.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stash 6\/24\/13<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Friends, Many folks out there are saddened by the recent death of actor James Gandolfini (aka Tony Soprano). He has \u201cshuffled off this mortal coil\u201d and assumed an untimely seat at the head table in that big pasta palace &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stashreport.com\/?p=598\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stashreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stashreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stashreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stashreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stashreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stashreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"https:\/\/stashreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stashreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stashreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stashreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}