{"id":3447,"date":"2012-01-04T18:10:46","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T23:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2012\/01\/04\/onwards-into-2012\/"},"modified":"2021-11-08T16:13:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T21:13:20","slug":"onwards-into-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2012\/01\/04\/onwards-into-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Onwards into 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<object width=\"480\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/IAXgbTbCljI?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/IAXgbTbCljI?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nSo yesterday I got back from my parents where I&#8217;d been for the holidays; a bit of a bother dragging the kittens there and back again on the train, but managed succesfully with a little help from my mum. The kittens behaved quite well on the whole, but Sophie did gave me an heart attack a few days ago when she slipped out of the window in my second storey bedroom into the gutters. That wasn&#8217;t too bad, but then she tried to clatter up the rooftiles and I could just grab her before she plummeted back&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nApart from that little incident the holidays were quite relaxing, with endless games of <cite>Colonists of Catan<\/cite> and <a href=\"\/books2\/2012\/01\/singled-out-virginia-nicholson\/\">some<\/a> <a href=\"\/books2\/2012\/01\/air-power-and-maneuver-warfare-martin-van-creveld-et-all\/\">light<\/a> <a href=\"\/books2\/2011\/12\/medieval-warfare-helen-nicholson\/\">reading<\/a>, but coming back to my empty flat did bring home the reality of life without Sandra again. I lived with her for the better part of a decade and the last three years especially were lived for her;  getting ready for the kidney transplant first, then trying to get her out of hospital and back home and finally her dying and funeral.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m not sure what to do now. Suddenly there&#8217;s this big hole in my life where Sandra used to be and I&#8217;m not sure yet what can fill that hole, if anything can. The last two months I&#8217;ve gone through on autopilot, but now I&#8217;ve had time to think and reflect on what to do with the rest of my life and just don&#8217;t know what to do with myself&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So yesterday I got back from my parents where I&#8217;d been for the holidays; a bit of a bother dragging the kittens there and back again on the train, but managed succesfully with a little help from my mum. The kittens behaved quite well on the whole, but Sophie did gave me an heart attack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2492],"class_list":["post-3447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts-interesting-only-to-me","tag-sandra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9454,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions\/9454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}