<!-- Powered by Shantz WP Prefix Suffix. Tech Blog: http://tech.shantanugoel.com/ Secure Programming Blog: http://www.safercode.com/blog/ Blog: http://blog.shantanugoel.com/ --><!-- Powered by Shantz WP Prefix Suffix. Tech Blog: http://tech.shantanugoel.com/ Secure Programming Blog: http://www.safercode.com/blog/ Blog: http://blog.shantanugoel.com/ -->{"id":988,"date":"2012-04-06T04:30:28","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T04:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/?p=988"},"modified":"2012-04-06T04:54:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T04:54:07","slug":"988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/988\/","title":{"rendered":"March 5th.. Forever Loved. Layne Staley."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- rememberlayne top post 2 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:468px;height:15px\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6173441909460537\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"5290871788\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tumblr_l48ko0qMGr1qbr587o1_500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1001\" style=\"border-image: initial; border-width: 3px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;\" title=\"LAYNE STALEY OF ALICE IN CHAINS\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tumblr_l48ko0qMGr1qbr587o1_500.jpg\" alt=\"LAYNE STALEY OF ALICE IN CHAINS\" width=\"500\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tumblr_l48ko0qMGr1qbr587o1_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tumblr_l48ko0qMGr1qbr587o1_500-311x350.jpg 311w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well.. it&#8217;s been 10 years today since Layne passed away and honestly I still can not even fathom that it&#8217;s been that long.. I&#8217;ve had another child since then and so many things have happened in my life.. I can&#8217;t help but wonder where Layne, Demri and Mike would be today if maybe they had made some different choices. I&#8217;m not even sure it&#8217;s all about choices or if it&#8217;s destiny or if possibly someone up in the sky has a big plan for us all. Who knows. I admit to know nothing.<br \/>\nAll I know is I lost people who meant a lot to me and that their deaths paralyzed and devastated me.<\/p>\n<p>First it was Demri and then 6 months later Rosheen and then Layne and then Mike.. so yeh by the time Mike died.. I had become numb and just hurt.<\/p>\n<p>I started posting about Demri 12 years ago on my Livejournal mostly because I missed her and because it bothered me that no one even knew who she was.. I felt that she deserved to be remembered too.. and maybe she was not famous or in a band but she was someone that mattered enough to be remembered. I was happy to see people were interested and people did want to know about her..then Layne passed away and I started this website and I wrote more about my memories and stories about what they were like as &#8220;normal&#8221; people and how they had effected me personally. I hated that Layne was not remembered for being one of the MOST amazing musician we&#8217;ve had in our generation but more for the reclusive drug addicted man talked about in the media.. I believe his true fans and friends knew better..him being a drug addict did not take away from the amazing person he was and it was the shame he felt that made him become reclusive..<\/p>\n<p>This site has helped me so much to heal and I&#8217;d like to believe it has helped others as well.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t cry randomly as much anymore. Time does heal I guess but I think writing for me has been even more helpful then time alone. I always wished more people would come forward and share their stories about them online and that has finally happened now that we have Facebook and everyone.. including their Mothers are plugged in. Haha!<br \/>\nYep including mine. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Melinda and Gayla Starr have shared their pictures and their memories of Mike. Pictures of Demri are still few and far between but they come out of the blue now and then. I wish there were more of her being just Dem and less of her posing for photographers. (not to take away from the beautiful pictures we have of her by Jack Plasky). I&#8217;am grateful for those pictures because with out them we would have next to nothing.<\/p>\n<p>But who would not like to see more photos like this&#8230;..<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/5987513822_9af2fa2e79_b_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1000\" style=\"border-image: initial; border-width: 3px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;\" title=\"Demri Lara Parott\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/5987513822_9af2fa2e79_b_large.jpg\" alt=\"Demri Lara Parott\" width=\"500\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/5987513822_9af2fa2e79_b_large.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/5987513822_9af2fa2e79_b_large-436x350.jpg 436w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, sorry if I get off track but I can not think of Layne with out thinking of Dem&#8230;I miss them both.<\/p>\n<p>I still feel like I&#8217;ve said almost everything I have to say about them and now I just have to heal and move on. They will forever be in my heart and my mind and I will never in a million years forget the good times we shared. Rest in Peace Layne and Demri and Mike and Rosheen and Please Lord do not let this list get longer.<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- rememberlayne top post 2 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:468px;height:15px\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6173441909460537\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"5290871788\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=Rememberlayne\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/subscribe-button.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- rememberlayne top post 3 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:320px;height:100px\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6173441909460537\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"9721071389\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well.. it&#8217;s been 10 years today since Layne passed away and honestly I still can not even fathom that it&#8217;s been that long.. I&#8217;ve had another child since then and so many things have happened in my life.. I can&#8217;t help but wonder where Layne, Demri and Mike would be today if maybe they had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,9,13,16,19,20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alice-in-chains","category-demri","category-featured","category-layne-staley","category-mike-starr","category-personal-stories","category-pictures","category-tributes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rememberlayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}