{"id":7705,"date":"2014-08-19T09:13:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T13:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/?p=7705"},"modified":"2014-08-25T14:06:11","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T18:06:11","slug":"remembering-the-final-cut-dedicated-to-robin-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/remembering-the-final-cut-dedicated-to-robin-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering the Final Cut: Dedicated to Robin Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Final-Cut-Graphic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7707\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Final-Cut-Graphic-580x566.jpg\" alt=\"Final Cut Graphic\" width=\"580\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Final-Cut-Graphic-580x566.jpg 580w, http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Final-Cut-Graphic.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dear, Patch.\u00a0 Hello, Peter.\u00a0 Mork, Jack, Good Will Hunting.\u00a0 No more Good Mornings!\u00a0 We have reached What Dreams May Come, an echo now in the Dead Poets Society, but we are The Fisher King.\u00a0 We don\u2019t need no Toys to set The Bird Cage free.\u00a0 Live, Love, and Laugh as we fade to black, remembering The Final Cut.<\/p>\n<p>It was not the story that brought it life.\u00a0 It was the man &#8211; a man conflicted and haunted from his past, chasing ghosts. \u00a0He strived for perfection, but his heart was flawed, love denied.\u00a0 Still, he pushed on, searching, always searching, but finding answers that should not be found.\u00a0 Warnings flashed.\u00a0 Recordings erased.\u00a0 All he had to do was let go, forget, but his life was memory.\u00a0 His past was a fresh grave waiting, and he dug deeper, ripping into the secrets of his mind as his life hung in the balance.\u00a0 But he could not let go, finding a fragment of peace in an illusion of tragedy, and the rabbit\u2019s foot bleeds red as lasting thoughts fade to white.\u00a0 No, it was not the story that brought The Final Cut to life.\u00a0 It was the driver cruising past the One Hour Photo, dipping into Insomnia, and driving straight into the heart of Science-Fiction.<\/p>\n<p>And captivated we were.\u00a0 First, with laughter.\u00a0 Then, with tears, stitched to our sides.\u00a0 Soon, we had endless wonder at characters brought to life, their lives never to be forgotten; how could we ever forget them?\u00a0 Some we knew, like Peter Pan.\u00a0 Some we didn\u2019t, like Alan Hakman.\u00a0 We would never forget him.\u00a0 The curtain has fallen over a stage gone dark, but if you pause, listen, you\u2019ll hear it.\u00a0 You\u2019ll hear his love, laughter, and life, forever captivating our hearts and minds.\u00a0 We\u2019ll never forget you, Robin Williams.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Melissa R. Mendelson is a published short story author and a self-published poet, whose work has been featured in The Outreach for Breast Health Foundation&#8217;s Anthology: Beyond Memories, Names in a Jar: A Collection of Poetry by 100 Contemporary American Poets, and Espresso Fiction: A Collection of Flash Fiction for the Average Joe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear, Patch.  Hello, Peter.  Mork, Jack, Good Will Hunting.  No more Good Mornings!  We have reached What Dreams May Come, an echo now in the Dead Poets Society, but we are The Fisher King.  We don\u2019t need no Toys to set The Bird Cage free.  Live, Love, and Laugh as we fade to black, remembering The Final Cut.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":7707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,201,219,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7705"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7724,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7705\/revisions\/7724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}