{"id":7742,"date":"2002-09-09T13:40:31","date_gmt":"2002-09-09T01:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=7742"},"modified":"2020-09-22T13:42:34","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T01:42:34","slug":"morgueatlarge-initiation-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=7742","title":{"rendered":"[morgueatlarge] Initiation Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Full Name: Morgan Geddes Davie<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Geddes is the name of my mother&#8217;s family. I&#8217;m carrying the lineage of both<br>sides, but without a hyphen. Very nice.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With: Leon Verrall, whose middle name I don&#8217;t recall. Old friend &#8211; one of<br>the oldest, well over a decade now &#8211; and a man with whom I&#8217;d trust my life.<br>(Note to my mother: I don&#8217;t intend to ever be in a situation of<br>life-entrusting necessity. Relax.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plan: Go to London. Arrive. See London. Let one week pass. Then go<br>to Europe sans Leon. Meet friend Naomi. See Europe. Let several more<br>weeks pass. Then go to Portugal (which, granted, is in Europe) and meet<br>friends Dean and Kerry, and once again Leon. Let another week or two pass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At this stage, count coins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now you know the plan. The rest is story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~`morgue<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20040924095626\/http:\/\/lists.topica.com:80\/lists\/morgueatlarge\/read\/message.html?mid=905220310&amp;sort=d&amp;start=0\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20040924095626\/http:\/\/lists.topica.com:80\/lists\/morgueatlarge\/read\/message.html?mid=905220310&amp;sort=d&amp;start=0\">Wayback Machine copy of original message<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full Name: Morgan Geddes Davie (Geddes is the name of my mother&#8217;s family. I&#8217;m carrying the lineage of bothsides, but without a hyphen. Very nice.) With: Leon Verrall, whose middle name I don&#8217;t recall. Old friend &#8211; one ofthe oldest, well over a decade now &#8211; and a man with whom I&#8217;d trust my life.(Note &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=7742\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[morgueatlarge] Initiation Ceremony<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morgueatlarge"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-20S","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7742","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7743,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7742\/revisions\/7743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}