{"id":158,"date":"2006-03-03T18:00:39","date_gmt":"2006-03-04T01:00:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-03-03T18:00:39","modified_gmt":"2006-03-03T18:00:39","slug":"the_goddamned_circle_of_life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/2006\/the_goddamned_circle_of_life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Goddamned Circle of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"juiz-outdated-message jodpm-top\">Heads up, this content is 20 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.<\/div><p>This morning I awoke to find my pet mouse dead.  She was a good mouse, but admittedly, I didn&#8217;t love her. I&#8217;d been ready for her to die for awhile, hoping it would come sooner rather than later.  Seeing her there, though, shocked me, and flooded me with a whirlwind of cranky old memories. This isn&#8217;t the first time I&#8217;ve wished death on someone and been overwhelmed with pain when it came true.  The first time was with my father.And it all poured out in writing, so I invite you to read the reflection at The Writ: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewrit.org\/home\/index.php?pn=writ_read&amp;pnold=workshop&amp;writ_id=2846\">Irreverence: A Eulogy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heads up, this content is 20 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.This morning I awoke to find my pet mouse dead. She was a good mouse, but admittedly, I didn&#8217;t love her. I&#8217;d been ready for her to die for awhile, hoping it would come sooner rather than later. Seeing her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}