{"id":457,"date":"2006-11-04T11:59:40","date_gmt":"2006-11-04T17:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/457"},"modified":"2006-11-05T09:42:15","modified_gmt":"2006-11-05T15:42:15","slug":"my-parents-are-immortal-yes-they-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/457","title":{"rendered":"My parents are immortal. Yes, they are."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a long conversation tonight with a friend about our parents and how the idea of them dying is impossible to think about. I remember the conversation I had with my sister years ago agreeing that Mom and Dad were immortal.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight we talked about how it will ever possibly feel OK to have our parents leave us. Even if I have my own family,   I don&#8217;t think that I will ever be ready for my parents to shuffle off. Seriously. They&#8217;re not old enough for me to think that it would be merciful.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m maybe just a little freaked out thinking about it. But it&#8217;s kind of pleasurable, because it&#8217;s an emotional indicator of how I feel. I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s lots of things that I won&#8217;t miss till they&#8217;re gone, but it&#8217;s a powerful feeling to miss someone before they leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a long conversation tonight with a friend about our parents and how the idea of them dying is impossible to think about. I remember the conversation I had with my sister years ago agreeing that Mom and Dad were immortal. Tonight we talked about how it will ever possibly feel OK to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-im-feeling-emo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}