{"id":1198,"date":"2012-11-12T06:51:58","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T14:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iambo.com\/blog2\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2012-11-12T08:33:51","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T16:33:51","slug":"limbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.iambo.com\/blog2\/?p=1198","title":{"rendered":"Limbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iambo.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/black-square-1915.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iambo.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/black-square-1915.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"black-square-1915\" width=\"992\" height=\"1000\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.iambo.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/black-square-1915.jpeg 992w, http:\/\/www.iambo.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/black-square-1915-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/www.iambo.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/black-square-1915-297x300.jpeg 297w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 992px) 100vw, 992px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A year ago today, I lost my best friend. It was a Sunday afternoon, sunshine started to peak through the rainy clouds, birds were chirping, traffic was light, one of those typical Sunday afternoons in LA. On that day, I remember I was more relieved than sad. I imagined we&#8217;d all cry by his side, but that&#8217;s the strange thing about death, you don&#8217;t cry over it, you accept its certainty, and&#8230; not quite sure what to do next. You&#8217;re stuck, knowing the departed won&#8217;t return, but you wish they do.<\/p>\n<p>A year later, I&#8217;m in a land that is both strange and familiar, with no one by my side, facing uncertainty, wondering to my self, &#8220;My friend, what would you do?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago today, I lost my best friend. It was a Sunday afternoon, sunshine started to peak through the rainy clouds, birds were chirping, traffic was light, one of those typical Sunday afternoons in LA. On that day, I remember I was more relieved than sad. I imagined we&#8217;d all cry by his side, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iambo.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iambo.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iambo.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iambo.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iambo.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.iambo.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1202,"href":"http:\/\/www.iambo.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions\/1202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iambo.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iambo.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iambo.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}