{"id":13791,"date":"2013-07-14T09:13:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T14:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=13791"},"modified":"2019-11-26T06:32:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T11:32:17","slug":"thinking-of-rick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/07\/14\/thinking-of-rick\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking of Rick"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Young-Rick\"<\/a>I had another dream about Rick. It woke me from a sound sleep and getting back wasn’t in the cards.<\/p>\n

Ricky Brandly passed away on June 7 as the result of a traffic accident. He was a friend and is sorely missed. His visits to my subconscious are welcome but a little jarring. Dream reality collides with what I know to be true, and I bolt out of bed. Take it easy on me, pally.<\/em><\/p>\n

Maybe Rick has figured out how to hack<\/em> the afterlife and is paying his friends little visits. Rick was a big science fiction and fantasy fan and was obsessed with computers. He may have figured out some work-arounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had another dream about Rick. It woke me from a sound sleep and getting back wasn’t in the cards. Ricky Brandly passed away on June 7 as the result of a traffic accident. 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