{"id":487,"date":"2022-08-31T19:12:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T14:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jessicacurrall.com\/?p=487"},"modified":"2022-08-31T19:12:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T14:12:39","slug":"last-conversations-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jessicacurrall.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/31\/last-conversations-maybe\/","title":{"rendered":"Last conversations (maybe)."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There had been a steady decline.  The first time we met, he was sitting in a chair with a walker nearby.  Then the chair was a wheelchair.   Next, sitting up in bed.  Now, he lies back even with his eyes closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said, &#8220;I wonder where the deer have gone.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Deer?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Yes.&#8221;  He explained, &#8220;I used to see deer from my window here.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/192.241.129.221\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/HumbledEnriched_JoanHalifax2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jessicacurrall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/HumbledEnriched_JoanHalifax2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/jessicacurrall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/HumbledEnriched_JoanHalifax2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jessicacurrall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/HumbledEnriched_JoanHalifax2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As of this moment, I do not know if that was our last conversation.  Maybe we will talk more this week about one thing or another.  I have quiet in the not-knowing, and that is enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There had been a steady decline. The first time we met, he was sitting in a chair with a walker nearby. Then the chair was a wheelchair. Next, sitting up in bed. Now, he lies back even with his eyes closed. He said, &#8220;I wonder where the deer have gone.&#8221; &#8220;Deer?&#8221; &#8220;Yes.&#8221; He explained, &#8220;I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jessicacurrall.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/31\/last-conversations-maybe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Last conversations (maybe).<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conversations","category-grief","category-hospice-experience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicacurrall.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicacurrall.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicacurrall.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicacurrall.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicacurrall.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jessicacurrall.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicacurrall.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicacurrall.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicacurrall.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicacurrall.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}