{"id":4451,"date":"2008-09-11T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=4451"},"modified":"2021-03-10T11:58:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T16:58:11","slug":"life-update-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=4451","title":{"rendered":"Life update, part 2."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sick of disappointing my friends.  I need to go down the list of the ones that are more recent, and are bothering me the most.<\/p>\n<p><lj user=\"aieraelyn_sable\"><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve canceled nearly every trip to the Detroit area to see her, for one reason or another.  I&#8217;ve missed anime nights, I&#8217;ve missed homemade mead, I&#8217;ve missed club nights, and I&#8217;ve missed nights that she would have ended up in the hospital no matter what I did.  None of that matters, really.  What matters is that I missed spending time with her.<\/lj><\/p>\n<p><lj user=\"tighwk\"><br \/>\nI missed his wedding, because I originally had the day off, and then after a rescheduling, I had to work.  He was counting on me, he had a seat set aside for me, and I wasn&#8217;t able to fulfill my promise of being there.  I missed what was probably the happiest day of his life, and now he won&#8217;t answer my IM&#8217;s.  I understand why, and I don&#8217;t blame him.<\/lj><\/p>\n<p><lj user=\"the_macross\"><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve earned a reputation for promising to be at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipmradio.com\/\">IPM<\/a>, and then not showing.  This last time, I was supposed to DJ.  It doesn&#8217;t matter if my reason was real or not, I failed to show again.  I promised to be there, to spend time there, and then didn&#8217;t.<\/lj><\/p>\n<p><lj user=\"applepenguin\"><br \/>\nWedding.  Two different receptions, and I&#8217;m not going to be able to go to either.  I dropped the ball again, and I&#8217;m going to miss\/have missed an extremely important day in his life.<\/lj><\/p>\n<p>Are you seeing a pattern?  I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sick of disappointing my friends. I need to go down the list of the ones that are more recent, and are bothering me the most. I&#8217;ve canceled nearly every trip to the Detroit area to see her, for one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=4451\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-4451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-livejournal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paQnES-19N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7671,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451\/revisions\/7671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}