{"id":116,"date":"2007-05-20T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-20T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/?p=116"},"modified":"2007-05-20T14:10:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-20T14:10:00","slug":"staying-in-bed-this-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2007\/05\/staying-in-bed-this-sunday","title":{"rendered":"staying in bed this Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a heavy heart this week. A longtime friend of the family died on Tuesday. <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/iamthebestartist\/500334693\/\">I put a photo of her up on Flickr<\/a>, but otherwise I haven&#8217;t been talking about it much. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.townonline.com\/acton\/obituaries\/x1522632218\">Pat&#8217;s obit is here<\/a> and it&#8217;s more of one than she would have had if she had gotten her druthers. I took a friend out to lunch on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>I deal with grief poorly. Generally I just sort of slosh it around inside of me and usually it manifests itself as stress-related slightly-hypochondriacal random symptoms, and a lot of irritability and sleepiness. So, I&#8217;m laying in bed looking out the window at the wet trees in the backyard, realizing I&#8217;m not going to mow the lawn <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">again<\/span> this weekend and trying to make some escape-from-the-house plan before I get bogged down in endless linux upgrades and housecleaning busywork. On the other hand busywork beats moping and <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">both<\/span> of them beat more typing, so I guess I&#8217;ll wrap this up here. If you&#8217;re so inclined, it would be nice if you took a friend out to lunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2007\/05\/staying-in-bed-this-sunday\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to staying in bed this Sunday\"><p>I have a heavy heart this week. A longtime friend of the family died on Tuesday. I put a photo of her up on Flickr, but otherwise I haven&#8217;t been talking about it much. Pat&#8217;s obit is here and it&#8217;s more of one than she would have had if she had gotten her druthers. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[39,63,29],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","tag-grief","tag-obit","tag-pat","h-entry","hentry"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}