{"id":1388,"date":"2008-09-15T08:29:43","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T07:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2008-09-15T08:55:55","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T07:55:55","slug":"off-topic-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/09\/off-topic-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"Off topic: Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">A<\/span>pologies. Posting has been poor and now the blog will be still more erratic for a week or so. My dad died suddenly, but not unexpectedly, last night. He was a couple of weeks short of his sixty-fifth birthday.<!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>A smoker for forty years, he had twice cheated death, lived with a lot of pain, and took some comfort from the fact that his continued existence baffled doctors.  <\/p>\n<p>His mortal remains are probably too worn out to be transplantable, but he wanted his body to go to medical science &#8211; and, yes, he knew all the stories about the kinds of things trainee doctors get up to. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s life. His is over. He will be missed. Now on with yours, and thanks for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies. Posting has been poor and now the blog will be still more erratic for a week or so. My dad died suddenly, but not unexpectedly, last night. He was a couple of weeks short of his sixty-fifth birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-off-topic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1390,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions\/1390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}