{"id":2503,"date":"2004-12-16T21:05:44","date_gmt":"2004-12-17T05:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2004\/12\/16\/2503.html"},"modified":"2004-12-16T21:05:44","modified_gmt":"2004-12-17T05:05:44","slug":"dark-days-and-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2004\/12\/16\/dark-days-and-nights\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark days and nights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This morning I got two news-bearing emails from friends within about 90 minutes of each other.<\/p>\n<p>The first was to let me know that an old friend's wife had given birth a couple days ago; which would normally be wonderful news, except that she was only at 25 weeks.  Baby Esther has now made it through the first 72 hours, which I gather is a very good sign, but I also gather it's still a difficult and anxious (though also joyous) time.<\/p>\n<p>The second, unrelated, was to let me know that another old friend's mother died yesterday morning, of cancer.<\/p>\n<p>(That makes at least three of my college friends whose mothers have died this year.)<\/p>\n<p>I was pretty much useless at work today.  I sat through a couple of meetings, but I couldn't focus on anything all day.  Around 5:00 I was walking back to my desk with a co-worker, and the big windows in all directions were filled with gathering dusk, and I said, \"It must get dark this early every year at this time, but&#8212\" but then I couldn't think of how to end that sentence.  She knew what I meant, though: \"&#8212;it seems like it's darker than usual, doesn't it?\" she said.<\/p>\n<p>Kam's up in Portland, where the nights are longer and darker than here.  I asked her, \"Is winter going to last much longer?\"  She said just a few more days; after next Tuesday, the days will start getting longer again.  I said, \"That's not soon enough.\"<\/p>\n<p>I'm pretty much ready for this year to be over.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I got two news-bearing emails from friends within about 90 minutes of each other. The first was to&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503","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=2503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}