{"id":81269,"date":"2018-09-25T11:23:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T18:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=81269"},"modified":"2018-10-09T14:33:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T21:33:00","slug":"the-conversations-i-cant-have","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=81269","title":{"rendered":"The Conversations I Can\u2019t Have"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-82467\" src=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"151\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a>It\u2019s been 40 years. After all this time, it\u2019s still ends up being what my dad, Donald Robert Bower, could have taught me, and what in turn I could have taught him. I know most everything there is to know in the mechanical world \u2013 automotive, heavy equipment \u2013 and, of course, my favorite, firearms. He knew everything I don\u2019t about animals and how to care for them. Just in the last 10 years, I needed help with my dogs that I\u2019m sure he would have known what to do, but he\u2019s not around to ask or guide me in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>We were different in other ways, too. He was ultra-liberal, and I\u2019m a conservative Catholic supporter of the NRA. I know each of us would have tried to change the other one\u2019s thinking on politics, social issues, life issues. And who would have prevailed? I\u2019m never going to know, one way or the other.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Articles by members of the Bowers family written for <\/i>the jonestown report <i>are <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=17024\">here<\/a>. Greg Bowers\u00a0can be reached at <a href=\"mailto:twogoodbeingbad@aol.com\">twogoodbeingbad@aol.com<\/a>.)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been 40 years. After all this time, it\u2019s still ends up being what my dad, Donald Robert Bower, could have taught me, and what in turn I could have taught him. I know most everything there is to know in the mechanical world \u2013 automotive, heavy equipment \u2013 and, of course, my favorite, firearms. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":81229,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-81269","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81269"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82468,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81269\/revisions\/82468"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}