{"id":15035,"date":"2015-03-03T10:43:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T18:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2015\/03\/03\/15035.html"},"modified":"2015-03-03T10:43:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T18:43:09","slug":"peoples-parents-dying-and-othe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2015\/03\/03\/peoples-parents-dying-and-othe\/","title":{"rendered":"People&#8217;s parents dying, and other hard times"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The past few months have been difficult times for a lot of my friends. I feel like all through the last couple of months of 2014, bad things kept happening to friends: serious illnesses and unexpected major surgeries, deaths of close family members and beloved pets, big financial problems, relationship difficulties, and more.<\/p>\n<p>And then around late January or early February, I think five of my Facebook friends' parents died in a two-week period. And a couple of other friends have lost parents and had other major life issues in the weeks since then.<\/p>\n<p>I've been wanting to write about all that, but I've been having a hard time figuring out what I wanted to say and how I wanted to say it. Eventually, it occurred to me that that was partly because of the &ldquo;it's all about me&rdquo; factor. I wanted to express sympathy, but I also wanted to talk about myself. And those are really two different things. So I'll save the all-about-me stuff for a separate post.<\/p>\n<p>So, to all my friends who've been going through hard times, and especially to those who've lost parents recently: You have my sympathies. I'm sorry to hear about everything you've been going through. I think I've said that to most of you individually, but it bears repeating.<\/p>\n<p>I don't know if this'll be of any use to any of you, but just in case, here's a link to a post I wrote a while back about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2013\/02\/27\/14421.html\">coping with grief<\/a>, which in turn links to a page that's been useful to me in understanding and dealing with my own grief.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past few months have been difficult times for a lot of my friends. I feel like all through the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death","category-parents-children"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}