{"id":4378,"date":"2019-07-05T14:23:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T21:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=4378"},"modified":"2019-07-05T14:23:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T21:23:40","slug":"june-you-thought-march-was-bad-hold-my-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/05\/june-you-thought-march-was-bad-hold-my-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"June: &#8220;You thought March was bad? Hold my beer.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"wp-image-4379\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_20190604_213659-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"Me in the airport, on my emergency flight out.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_20190604_213659-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_20190604_213659-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_20190604_213659-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>So, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/29\/friggin-march-man\/\">March was pretty bad<\/a>: I had to fly back East because Mom ended up in the hospital, we had a mad rush to finish a paper which both screwed up my time at GDC and Clockwork Alchemy AND failed to get in on time, and I found out I was suffering from chronic sinusitis.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Not to be outdone, however, June decided to throw me a bigger one.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"wp-image-4380\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_20190605_130905-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"What was left on Mom's breakfast room table.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_20190605_130905-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_20190605_130905-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_20190605_130905-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>So, Mom&#8217;s gone. She passed after what sounds like a beautiful week with friends and family &#8211; I spoke to her the day before she died, and she went to visit the neighbors and swing on their back porch until almost nine &#8211; and then collapsed while changing the bed linens in her own bedroom in the house she&#8217;d lived in for forty years. Of ways to go, that&#8217;s a good one.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Regularly scheduled blogging will resume &#8230; sometime.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Goodbye, Mom.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"wp-image-4381\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_20190605_060642-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"The forest sky of the Atlanta airport.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_20190605_060642-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_20190605_060642-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_20190605_060642-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, March was pretty bad: I had to fly back East because Mom ended up in the hospital, we had a mad rush to finish a paper which both screwed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[193],"tags":[252,5],"class_list":["post-4378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-life","tag-all-my-facebook-posts-are-obituaries","tag-we-call-it-living","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4383,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4378\/revisions\/4383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}