{"id":4055,"date":"2024-01-22T01:03:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T06:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4055"},"modified":"2024-01-09T09:19:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T14:19:32","slug":"i-want-people-to-miss-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2024\/01\/i-want-people-to-miss-me\/","title":{"rendered":"I Want People to Miss Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Much of what we pass off as complicated issues comes from something simple, the desire to be missed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I like to listen to the podcast of former Washington Post writer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonykornheisershow.com\/\">Tony Kornheiser<\/a>. I laugh a lot while listening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr. Kornheiser is a big movie fan and follows the culture as he was a Style writer for the Post. He lamented during the COVID shutdown as he stopped going to movie theaters. After the pandemic, he wasn&#8217;t going to return out of concern of catching something that would kill him (he is in his 70s).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr. Kornheiser&#8217;s lament was not that he was not returning to theaters; his lament was that no one would note his absence and miss him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I frequent a few coffee shops in my community every morning. I have done this for 15 years. During that time, some regular faces have disappeared. They died of old age. I miss them. I miss what they brought with them each day. Their absence hurts my heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Will anyone miss me? The lack of my patronage will not break any of these coffee shops. Will my time and presence be missed? I wish so. Still, why would anyone miss me? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perhaps I can bring something with me each day that is miss-able. Perhaps I can do better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Much of what we pass off as complicated issues comes from something simple, the desire to be missed. I like to listen to the podcast of former Washington Post writer Tony Kornheiser. I laugh a lot while listening. Mr. Kornheiser is a big movie fan and follows the culture as he was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,47,17,10,458,308],"tags":[143,169,139,133,459,309],"class_list":["post-4055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-coffee","category-culture","category-people","category-thank-you","category-wishes","tag-change","tag-coffee","tag-culture","tag-people","tag-thank-you","tag-wishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4056,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055\/revisions\/4056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}