{"id":2122,"date":"2008-12-23T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T17:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=2122"},"modified":"2021-03-15T11:12:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T15:12:07","slug":"jim-ivey-packs-2-kinds-of-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=2122","title":{"rendered":"Jim Ivey Packs 2 Kinds of Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/SVEkK6ka6uI\/AAAAAAAACUs\/ekDOPIOVBc4\/s1600-h\/z122308ivey.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5283043607821609698\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 321px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/SVEkK6ka6uI\/AAAAAAAACUs\/ekDOPIOVBc4\/s400\/z122308ivey.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Yesterday <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">John Beatty<\/span>, his bride, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Bella<\/span>, and I drove over to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Orlando<\/span> to spend a little quality time with <a style=\"color: #cc0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/zablozone.blogspot.com\/search?q=ivey\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">our ole buddy, Jim Ivey<\/span><\/a>. The <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">three hour marathon breakfast session<\/span> included so many discussion tangents and laughs that it would be impossible to recount them all.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">I will share one story though. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Jim<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"> is <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">83 years old<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"> and he still gets up and goes on a daily early morning walk. On one of these trips as he was enjoying <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">a hot cup of coffee<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"> and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">smoking one of his famous cigars<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"> a man jumped out at him from behind some bushes. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Jim<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"> loudly announced: &#8220;Stay back! I&#8217;m armed!&#8221; and the man jumped back and went the other way. Knowing that <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Jim<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"> owns a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">handgun<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">, I asked it he was carrying it. His reply, &#8220;No, but I was armed. I had a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">hot cup of coffee<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"> in one hand and a<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> lit cigar<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"> in the other!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And knowing <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Jim<\/span> he&#8217;d have used them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday John Beatty, his bride, Bella, and I drove over to Orlando to spend a little quality time with our<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2122"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25884,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions\/25884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}