{"id":8001,"date":"2013-04-30T15:31:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T15:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=8001"},"modified":"2013-04-30T15:31:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T15:31:57","slug":"in-memory-of-a-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=8001","title":{"rendered":"In Memory Of A Friend."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"In%20Memory%20Of%20A%20Friend.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>This last week marked twenty years of a life cheated out of the experience of living. Twenty years ago, my wonderful friend Robert Paul Johnson was murdered, most likely bashed to death because he was gay.<\/p>\n<p>I never go to tell him, but I loved this guy. He was everything that was right in the world. In his honor, tonight I&#8217;m going to play the song <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=6480\">I wrote for him<\/a> at the Audies open mic. I&#8217;ll do a web-cam of the song and post it later on today.<\/p>\n<p>I still miss you my friend.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the story of the night I found out my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=167\">was gone forever.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Victim<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Photo of Victim Robert Paul Johnson\" alt=\"Photo of Victim Robert Paul Johnson\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sandiego.gov\/police\/graphics\/coldcasejohnsonrpth.jpg\" width=\"125\" height=\"200\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiego.gov\/police\/pdf\/coldcase\/coldcasejohnsonrp.pdf\">See larger view one (Robert Paul Johnson)<\/a> (PDF)<\/td>\n<td><strong>Victim<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Photo of Victim Robert Paul Johnson\" alt=\"Photo of Victim Robert Paul Johnson\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sandiego.gov\/police\/graphics\/coldcasejohnsonrpth2.jpg\" width=\"125\" height=\"200\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiego.gov\/police\/pdf\/coldcase\/coldcasejohnsonrp2.pdf\">See larger view two (Robert Paul Johnson)<\/a> (PDF)<\/td>\n<td><strong>Victim:<\/strong> Robert Paul Johnson<strong>Date:<\/strong> April 24, 1993<\/p>\n<p><strong>Address:<\/strong> 3200 Mission Boulevard<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\"><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong> Robert Paul Johnson, age 27, lived in Mission Beach and was the manager of his apartment complex. On Thursday evening, April 22, 1993, Johnson attended a dinner party with a friend. After the party, Johnson got a ride home from his friend, arriving at about 11:30 pm. Johnson\u2019s friend was the last person to see him alive.Johnson failed to show up for work for the next two days. Johnson\u2019s boss, concerned over his absence, eventually contacted one of one Johnson\u2019s friends, who went to Johnson\u2019s apartment on April 24, 1993, to check on Johnson. Johnson\u2019s body was discovered in the bathroom of his apartment. He had been strangled to death.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson was very friendly and frequently invited people he met on the Mission Beach boardwalk to his home.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"In%20Memory%20Of%20A%20Friend.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>This last week marked twenty years of a life cheated out of the experience of living. Twenty years ago, my wonderful friend Robert Paul Johnson was murdered, most likely bashed to death because he was gay. I never go to tell him, but I loved this guy. He was everything that was right in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8001"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8004,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8001\/revisions\/8004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}