{"id":425,"date":"2019-07-22T14:49:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T14:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/?p=425"},"modified":"2019-07-22T14:49:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T14:49:36","slug":"not-dead-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/not-dead-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Not dead yet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>No, I am not dead yet. I can&#8217;t blame anyone for thinking so. (<em>Did<\/em> anyone wonder? or notice?\u2014likely not.) In the traditional first-blog-post-after-a-long-hiatus, the blogger apologizes, sometimes offers an explanation, and always promises never again to allow such a lapse. You, O Hypothetical Reader, will find here no so such apology, nor explanation, nor promise. We all know that they&#8217;re lies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not sorry for the gap. It happened\u2014unfortunate things happen all the time\u2014; and on any rational scale of misfortune, my blank blog is not so much as a blip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I won&#8217;t explain. Because there&#8217;s nothing to explain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I certainly don&#8217;t promise not to let postings slip again. In fact, inevitably I will, if only due to my actual death (long may it delay).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So here we are again, you and I, H.R. and feckless author. Anyone want a drink?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, I am not dead yet. I can&#8217;t blame anyone for thinking so. (Did anyone wonder? or notice?\u2014likely not.) In the traditional first-blog-post-after-a-long-hiatus, the blogger apologizes, sometimes offers an explanation, and always promises never again to allow such a lapse. You, O Hypothetical Reader, will find here no so such apology, nor explanation, nor promise. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/not-dead-yet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not dead yet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-housekeeping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426,"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions\/426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}