{"id":1281,"date":"2004-08-18T20:42:50","date_gmt":"2004-08-18T20:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2004\/08\/18\/family.html"},"modified":"2004-08-18T20:42:50","modified_gmt":"2004-08-18T20:42:50","slug":"family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2004\/08\/18\/family.html","title":{"rendered":"family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes family has to come first.  I&#8217;m a workaholic and i don&#8217;t slow down.  Ever.  This really caught up to me this weekend.  My grandfather is ill and the reality of mortality hit me like a rock in the face.  I&#8217;d always assumed that he would always be around and just going on with my life, focusing on work and the chaos that i&#8217;m good at managing.  Everyone was in town for ASA and i felt this weird sense of betrayal when i went to work, when i went to the conference.  I realized that i needed to go east and so i swallowed hard, bailed on my talk and caught the first flight out.  Sometimes family has to come first.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want sympathy from this entry.  But i do want to encourage those of you who read apophenia (since many of you are also workaholics) to check in with your family.  Please.  So you don&#8217;t regret it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes family has to come first. I&#8217;m a workaholic and i don&#8217;t slow down. Ever. This really caught up to me this weekend. My grandfather is ill and the reality of mortality hit me like a rock in the face. I&#8217;d always assumed that he would always be around and just going on with my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}