{"id":2643,"date":"2015-03-12T20:53:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T20:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=2643"},"modified":"2015-03-13T08:02:32","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T08:02:32","slug":"goodbye-sir-terry-grief-and-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/goodbye-sir-terry-grief-and-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Sir Terry.  Grief and legacy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A long sad sigh was felt around the world when <a title=\"Sir Terry Pratchett\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Terry_Pratchett\">Sir Terry<\/a> moved on today.<\/p>\n<p>Many are grieving.<\/p>\n<p>His legacy began with time.\u00a0 It is infinite.\u00a0 Stories.<\/p>\n<p>Funny thing though, I was talking to him today.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the reality of the space-time continuum and modern technology.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t think that he&#8217;d not hear me.\u00a0 Ever.\u00a0 Selfishly, I feel a loss.\u00a0 That&#8217;s grief.\u00a0 Let it be, and then let it go.\u00a0 And remember.<\/p>\n<p>Once I wrote <a title=\"A chapter on death\" href=\"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=2644\">a chapter on death<\/a>.\u00a0 It seemed sensible and sanguine at the time.\u00a0 It&#8217;s difficult to feel like that now.<\/p>\n<p>Goodbye Sir Terry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long sad sigh was felt around the world when Sir Terry moved on today. Many are grieving. His legacy began with time.\u00a0 It is infinite.\u00a0 Stories. Funny thing though, I was talking to him today.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the reality of the space-time continuum and modern technology.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t think that he&#8217;d not hear me.\u00a0 Ever.\u00a0 &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/goodbye-sir-terry-grief-and-legacy\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Goodbye Sir Terry.  Grief and legacy.<\/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,"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":[3,32],"tags":[99,98,97],"class_list":["post-2643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holonics","category-mediaandgatherings","tag-pratchett","tag-sir-terry-pratchett","tag-terry-pratchett"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-GD","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2651,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions\/2651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}