{"id":10473,"date":"2010-12-23T19:35:50","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T00:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=10473"},"modified":"2010-12-23T19:35:50","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T00:35:50","slug":"reach-out-and-touch-someone-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=10473","title":{"rendered":"Reach out and touch someone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sent a text message to my friend who has lost a lot of her family over the last 18 months &#8211; two aunts, a mother and a nephew &#8211; and told her I was thinking of my mom and knew she must be too. She wrote back that it&#8217;s hard hard hard and sad too. <\/p>\n<p>If you know someone who has lost someone they love, even though Christmas might not be meaningful to you, it is a time that seems to put a lot of pressure on those of us who have recently (and maybe not even so recently) lost someone special &#8211; it might be a good time to check in and say, &#8220;Hey, I know you&#8217;re sad, and I love you.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>What the hell, why not, spread a little cheer &#8211; Merry Fucking Christmas &#8211; as my friend&#8217;s brother is want to say. MFC, indeed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sent a text message to my friend who has lost a lot of her family over the last 18 months &#8211; two aunts, a mother and a nephew &#8211; and told her I was thinking of my mom and knew she must be too. She wrote back that it&#8217;s hard hard hard and sad too. If you know someone who has lost someone they love, even though Christmas might not be meaningful to you,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-2IV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}