{"id":17,"date":"2008-06-01T18:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-01T23:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idespisemicrosoft.com\/?p=17"},"modified":"2026-01-28T18:27:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T00:27:19","slug":"joe-the-bull-curtis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Joe &#8220;The Bull&#8221; Curtis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We lost Joe Curtis &#8211; a fellow firefighter at Lone Oak Fire Department this week.  I just got back from a memorial service for him at Station #2.  Joe fought many fires and survived to talk about it, but finally lost his battle with cancer.  <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Joe was a good fella.  Stubborn and strong as his nickname suggests.  I only knew him for a couple of years, but his constant picking on Ronnie and his cowboy hat will always be in my memory. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We had Joe&#8217;s &#8220;final call&#8221; at the memorial service.  For those who are not firefighters, the call goes out on the radio for one final time to his unit number.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Central Dispatch to Lone Oak 120 &#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Central Dispatch to Lone Oak 120 &#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Central Dispatch to Lone Oak 120 &#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Negative Contact Unit 120 &#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">And the lone bell rings three times.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Goodbye Brother.  Rest in Peace.  You will be missed.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We lost Joe Curtis &#8211; a fellow firefighter at Lone Oak Fire Department this week. I just got back from a memorial service for him at Station #2. Joe fought many fires and survived to talk about it, but finally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/?p=17\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}