{"id":130643,"date":"2015-10-21T13:56:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T13:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/21\/samsweetchester-ok-so-let-me-tell-you-about\/"},"modified":"2018-09-05T01:04:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T01:04:22","slug":"samsweetchester-ok-so-let-me-tell-you-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/21\/samsweetchester-ok-so-let-me-tell-you-about\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-130643 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/21\/samsweetchester-ok-so-let-me-tell-you-about\/attachment\/130644\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nvf39pqN9f1sy2ji0o1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nvf39pqN9f1sy2ji0o1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nvf39pqN9f1sy2ji0o1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/samsweetchester.tumblr.com\/post\/130105641031\" target=\"_blank\">samsweetchester<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Ok so let me tell you about this.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Sheppard\u2019s autograph is the only autograph I bought because, although he\u2019s a ridiculously talented actor and I\u2019m a big fan (Canton and Badger just kicked ass), I admire him the most for staying sober for over 25 years. So I brought my NA step book for him to sign because six years clean or not, I still have a really hard time with steps, and I have trust issues when it comes to my sponsors, and it\u2019s one part of my recovery that\u2019s <i>so important<\/i> and is constantly being neglected.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if you don\u2019t know how autographs work, they\u2019re pretty fast paced. Mark was running late from his last photo op session AND he had a flight to catch, so the staff was <i>rushing us like crazy<\/i>. I slid my step book in front of him and he started signing it without looking at it. Then he paused and actually looked at what he was signing. He asked if this was new to me and I said no, that I\u2019d been clean for six years but I have a hard time with steps. You could actually see the Creation staff vibrating because I was taking up time that he literally didn\u2019t have to spare. But he was still looking at me so I told him how much I admire him staying clean for over 25 years and that this is something I want. For myself. In two decades I want to be able to say that I had been clean that long too. He circled step one as a place to start. And he said:\u00a0\u201cDon\u2019t drink, don\u2019t use, don\u2019t die. It can be done, just keep doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And the next thing I know I was outside the convention center sobbing like an idiot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>samsweetchester: Ok so let me tell you about this. Mark Sheppard\u2019s autograph is the only autograph I bought because, although he\u2019s a ridiculously talented actor and I\u2019m a big fan (Canton and Badger just kicked ass), I admire him the most for staying sober for over 25 years. So I brought my NA step book &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/21\/samsweetchester-ok-so-let-me-tell-you-about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[15275,15273,15274,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130645,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130643\/revisions\/130645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}