{"id":2671,"date":"2025-05-21T08:31:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T13:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ernestt.com\/bass\/?p=2671"},"modified":"2025-05-21T22:40:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T03:40:29","slug":"20-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ernestt.com\/bass\/2025\/05\/20-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Years Ago Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It was 20 Years ago today that Howard passed away. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">This is a big one. I can\u2019t believe it\u2019s been two decades since the great Howard Morris decided it was time to go. Each year has been a personal milestone of mine that I\u2019ve more or less written about on this site through the years. The yearly reflections are the culmination of 365 days worth of remembering the little things that cross my mind while moving through life. I still hear the sound of his voice, his words, his laugh, his facial expressions. I remember him around the house, at restaurants, meeting with close friends, meeting with fans, vacationing, especially day trips on our boat, being on set for acting, directing, doing cartoon voices and how serious he was about getting the creative just right. He was a master, obviously, and he brought so much life to everything. He\u2019s very much alive and well inside my mental movie theater. I was so fortunate to have had decades with him. Stuff like this sticks to the soul forever. As with the loss of any family member (or even a special pet) that loss really hurts. Pain from loss is the price each one of us pays for the incredible experiences, friendships and love that swirls back and forth between us. About six months before he passed, he and I were discussing the inevitable. He was concerned about how I would process his death. I simply told him that it would be rough, but because of the life-tools he gave me, I would deal with it and be OK. That\u2019s exactly what ended up happening. But with Howard, on this particular day two decades ago, neither he nor I ever saw it coming. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">I will always love you, Dad. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was 20 Years ago today that Howard passed away. This is a big one. I can\u2019t believe it\u2019s been two decades since the great Howard Morris decided it was time to go. Each year has been a personal milestone of mine that I\u2019ve more or less written about on this site through the years. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-howard-morris"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2s4Ro-H5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ernestt.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ernestt.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ernestt.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ernestt.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ernestt.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2671"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ernestt.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2675,"href":"https:\/\/ernestt.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671\/revisions\/2675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ernestt.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ernestt.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ernestt.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}