{"id":3174,"date":"2009-12-25T01:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T01:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2009\/12\/25\/like-hearing-that-pitter-pat-after-a-dead-line-of-silence\/"},"modified":"2009-12-25T01:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-25T01:08:00","slug":"like-hearing-that-pitter-pat-after-a-dead-line-of-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2009\/12\/25\/like-hearing-that-pitter-pat-after-a-dead-line-of-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"like hearing that pitter pat after a dead line of silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/foxtongue\/4212826902\/\" title=\"Happy Holidays! by Foxtongue, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2556\/4212826902_73a4f91be7.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Happy Holidays!\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEnjoy yourselves, whatever it is you&#8217;re doing!<\/center><\/p>\n<p>I have to admit that this December wasn&#8217;t looking very good. Bad luck was piling on bad luck, until I felt like I had somehow started an invisible count-down to an early grave. It seems, however, that everything was just clearing out of the way, leaving space to celebrate new, better foundations. There has been a bright side to every disaster. Because I was let go, I&#8217;m able to spend the holidays with Tony, who&#8217;s been saving up his use-it-or-lose-it Microserf vacation, and go with him to San Diego to see our friends, <a href=\"http:\/\/mutaytor.com\/\">Mutaytor<\/a>, perform with Rabbit In The Moon on New Years Eve at <a href=\"http:\/\/evolvenewyears.eventbrite.com\/\">Evolve<\/a>. Because my life crashed down all at once, I have been surrounded by love and care and support beyond my wildest dreams. I&#8217;m currently wearing a little silver frog ring and a pair of swooningly soft groverskin socks from <a href=\"http:\/\/users.livejournal.com\/_stranger_here\/\">Karen<\/a>, for example, who sent me such a beautiful treasure package that I came down with a mild case of the weeps as I was carefully opening all the enchanting layers of ravishing colour and glee.<\/p>\n<p><center>Thank you, my loves, my friends, my acquaintances, and you strangers. Thank you for everything!<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoy yourselves, whatever it is you&#8217;re doing! I have to admit that this December wasn&#8217;t looking very good. Bad luck was piling on bad luck, until I felt like I had somehow started an invisible count-down to an early grave. It seems, however, that everything was just clearing out of the way, leaving space to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2009\/12\/25\/like-hearing-that-pitter-pat-after-a-dead-line-of-silence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;like hearing that pitter pat after a dead line of silence&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[138,157,141,8,1170,246,1137],"class_list":["post-3174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-death","tag-friends","tag-holidays","tag-love","tag-omg","tag-reaction","tag-thank-you"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}