{"id":10,"date":"2007-08-08T23:23:23","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T23:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/2007\/08\/08\/how_should_i_begin\/"},"modified":"2018-01-05T02:48:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T02:48:57","slug":"how_should_i_begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/2007\/08\/08\/how_should_i_begin\/","title":{"rendered":"How should I begin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a blog about my father.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Hartman was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2006\/03\/07\/3428.html\">killed<\/a> in March, 2005. For a couple of years now, I&#8217;ve been thinking about starting a blog where I and other family members could post little tidbits&#8211;memories, anecdotes, jokes Peter told us, observations he made.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of my memories of Peter are good ones, but not all of them. And I want us to be able to post some of the less than complimentary things, mixed in with the good things; I want to remember him as he was, not an idealized perfect version of him. But everything here will be from people who cared about him; even if we post some things that don&#8217;t show him in the best possible light, it should be understood that everything here is posted in loving memory.<\/p>\n<p>My biggest remaining hesitation about this project is that I suspect Peter would not have been happy with it. He was, in some ways, a very private person; and even though he worked in the high tech industry for decades, I don&#8217;t think he was ever very comfortable with the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m going ahead with this project for now, with some trepidation. I&#8217;m justifying it to myself by saying that Peter&#8217;s gone now, and that memorials are as much for the living as for the dead. It&#8217;s possible that in a few weeks I&#8217;ll just get too uncomfortable with this project and abandon it, but I think it&#8217;ll be helpful to me to have a place where I can post this stuff. And I&#8217;m hoping that other family members will contribute.<\/p>\n<p>My plan is to post regular (perhaps once a week) brief tidbits. I&#8217;m hoping others will join me in that; of course you&#8217;re welcome to also post long rambly entries (like the ones I&#8217;m prone to posting in my main blog\/journal), but I&#8217;d like the main focus to be on short items.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, welcome to the blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a blog about my father. Peter Hartman was killed in March, 2005. For a couple of years now, I&#8217;ve been thinking about starting a blog where I and other family members could post little tidbits&#8211;memories, anecdotes, jokes Peter told us, observations he made. A lot of my memories of Peter are good ones, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}