{"id":1022,"date":"2018-06-06T11:40:17","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T18:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetsweetpea.com\/blog\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2018-06-06T11:40:17","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T18:40:17","slug":"one-of-lifes-delighful-encounters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/one-of-lifes-delighful-encounters\/","title":{"rendered":"One Of Life&#8217;s Delighful Encounters"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1016\" src=\"https:\/\/www.janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/18699882_10211808920111201_8524359142379160079_n-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/18699882_10211808920111201_8524359142379160079_n-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/18699882_10211808920111201_8524359142379160079_n-768x502.jpg 768w, https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/18699882_10211808920111201_8524359142379160079_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> A handshake of hero&#8217;s\n<p>Got lost. Was late and getting dark. In and out looking for a camping spot in the middle of nowhere. Lost in Skull Valley. Silly us thinking we could just drop<span class=\"text_exposed_show\"> in and find a free camp site Memorial Day weekend. <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>Then we met Harvey. He poked his head in our car window. Old, weather beaten, no teeth camp host with a contagious spitfire spirit that made us smile. He said let me give ol&#8217; Steve a call. &#8220;Got an empty spot down there Steve? Got these folks coming in from Portland Oregon with no place to stay&#8221;. Harvey gave us a thumbs us, rested his arms on our window and started in on the story of his life.<\/p>\n<p>His wife died 6 years ago. He lost everything. Some kind of bad deal. Been a camp host for over a year. &#8220;I&#8217;ve got a roof over my head, water and a flip phone. Camping all year. I&#8217;ve got it made. What more could I ask for? You folks had dinner?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We got pizza and heard the rest of the story. Fought in the Korean War. A farmer from Turlock Ca. Wife out one day, grabbed her chest in pain. Heart attack and died. Harvey teared up.<\/p>\n<p>We told him Ron is a Vietnam vet. Harvey lit up, shook his hand and said, &#8220;Well now! Thank you for your service&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got lost. Was late and getting dark. In and out looking for a camping spot in the middle of nowhere. Lost in Skull Valley. Silly us thinking we could just drop in and find a free camp site Memorial Day weekend. Then we met Harvey. He poked his head in our car window. Old, weather [&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":[108,6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-mid-life-madness","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025,"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions\/1025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}