{"id":222191,"date":"2020-04-08T15:12:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T22:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=222191"},"modified":"2020-04-08T15:13:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T22:13:47","slug":"covid-life-meditations-with-ruben","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/08\/covid-life-meditations-with-ruben\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID Life Meditations with Ruben"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Was walking in the street and bumped into Ruben, a friend of my good friend <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@jeffreylam\">Jeffrey Lam<\/a>. I walked with Ruben and shared some turbo thoughts with him:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who is Ruben?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ruben is currently a medical student at the <a href=\"https:\/\/medical.brown.edu\">Brown Medical School<\/a>. 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