{"id":769,"date":"2008-04-03T22:36:25","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T22:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=769"},"modified":"2008-04-03T22:36:25","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T22:36:25","slug":"farewells-and-welcomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=769","title":{"rendered":"Farewells and Welcomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malcolm departed today. He is off to the land of Oz, and then further afield still on his road back to Edinburgh. Farvell, as the viking says on the sign by the little town of Norsewood.<br \/>\nAnd some new arrivals deserving of welcome &#8211; baby boys to Chuck (of <a href=http:\/\/rotq.blogspot.com\/>Sidonia<\/a>) and Sally, and to Gino (of <a href=http:\/\/death-from.blogspot.com\/>Death From Above<\/a>) and Viv. If I have my timing right, both of them have a birthday of April 2, which is in my eyes a most auspicious date.<br \/>\nThe birthday wisdom is accumulating in the comments to the previous post. They fill me with such glee. Politics, Yeats, Bon Jovi, BrainDead, the Wire, even a shocking true tale of the emergency room told in two quotes. <a href=http:\/\/www.additiverich.com\/morgue\/archives\/002388.html>Check them out &#8211; and if you haven&#8217;t already, add one for me!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malcolm departed today. He is off to the land of Oz, and then further afield still on his road back to Edinburgh. Farvell, as the viking says on the sign by the little town of Norsewood. And some new arrivals deserving of welcome &#8211; baby boys to Chuck (of Sidonia) and Sally, and to Gino &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=769\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Farewells and Welcomes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-ish"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-cp","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}