{"id":2349,"date":"2023-02-27T14:45:47","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T21:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/?p=2349"},"modified":"2023-02-27T14:47:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T21:47:36","slug":"i-finally-saw-debo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/27\/i-finally-saw-debo\/","title":{"rendered":"I finally saw Debo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I finally saw Debo.<br>I was lying on a bed or couch.<br>I heard him first as usual \ud83d\ude42<br>I could see through a door way to where he had stopped to admire and question someone who was repainting a door.<br>Then he came and jumped on the couch next to me<br>&#8220;Egbon kilon shele?&#8221; (bro, what is going on?). &#8220;An old man (and the nurses?) were whispering something &#8220;Ki won ma jeki ohun gbo&#8221; (not to let Debo hear whatever it was).<br>I asked him \u201cnibo lo wa?\u201d (Where are you?).<br>\u201cHospital\u201d. He answered.<br>He was still expectantly looking at me for an answer to his initial question.<br>I couldn\u2019t answer him. So instead I started crying, and cried myself awake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(I remember some half-serious conversation after he died where ghosts and so on came up. I remember telling whoever it was I wouldn&#8217;t mind if Debo comes \u201cvisiting\u201d. There\u2019s no way such a visit would be anything but positive).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally saw Debo.I was lying on a bed or couch.I heard him first as usual \ud83d\ude42I could see through a door way to where he had stopped to admire and question someone who was repainting a door.Then he came &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/27\/i-finally-saw-debo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1411,1364,1412],"class_list":["post-2349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adebowale-paul-adegoke","tag-debo-adegoke","tag-deebo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2352,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions\/2352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}