{"id":20684,"date":"2026-10-08T20:45:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T02:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=20684"},"modified":"2026-10-08T22:00:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T04:00:28","slug":"losing-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/08\/losing-people\/","title":{"rendered":"losing people"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>AKA dealing with death, the concept of death, post # 2500 million<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">i mean, just looking at photos of people that are gone (my mom, my aunt) and it&#8217;s just like _____________________. they were here and now they&#8217;re not. they had these lives, and now: ______________________. blankness. it&#8217;s hard to conceive completely, just going from something to nothing. like obviously i know they&#8217;re not here, and it&#8217;s not pressing on me every moment, but it&#8217;s just hard to wrap your mind around &#8212; the goneness. my friend monika sent me this book called<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/25430672-the-light-between-us\"> <em>the light between us<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>&#8212; about a medium (!) &#8212; and she swears it will explain life, death, all of it, and offer me a lot of comfort. i&#8217;m reading it EXTREMELY slowly (and skeptically) (AND fearfully, if i&#8217;m being honest).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AKA dealing with death, the concept of death, post # 2500 million i mean, just looking at photos of people that are gone (my mom, my aunt) and it&#8217;s just like _____________________. they were here and now they&#8217;re not. they had these lives, and now: ______________________. blankness. it&#8217;s hard to conceive completely, just going from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1],"class_list":["post-20684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20684"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20688,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20684\/revisions\/20688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}