{"id":11261,"date":"2022-05-16T19:42:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T02:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/?p=11261"},"modified":"2022-05-16T19:42:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T02:42:12","slug":"39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/?p=11261","title":{"rendered":"39.."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s is my brother&#8217;s 39th birthday. I wish he was here for me to tell him how old he was. And make fun of his oldness. But he is not. Not for 11 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I light a candle tonight for Smokey &#8211; as I have been doing every night for 4 months. And also for Jonathan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Loss is a terrible thing. Humans go through it on a daily basis all over the world. But telling yourself that does not make your loss any less. Or make you feel any better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only time does that. And you don&#8217;t feel better. You just feel less awful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s is my brother&#8217;s 39th birthday. I wish he was here for me to tell him how old he was. And make fun of his oldness. But he is not. Not for 11 years. I light a candle tonight for Smokey &#8211; as I have been doing every night for 4 months. And also for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11262,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11261\/revisions\/11262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}