{"id":16121,"date":"2021-01-01T07:20:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T12:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=16121"},"modified":"2021-01-01T07:20:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T12:20:15","slug":"2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=16121","title":{"rendered":"2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GCPacific03.jpg?resize=584%2C438&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GCPacific03.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GCPacific03.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GCPacific03.jpg?resize=150%2C113&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GCPacific03.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GCPacific03.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/>I have not been blogging here for a long time because&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8230;my beloved husband is terminally ill and after months of many, many, medical procedures and interventions, he is worse, not better.  <\/p>\n<p>I worked and worked and worked to care for him.  And he knows that.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/SpouseDiamondhead.jpg?resize=300%2C176&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-15723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/SpouseDiamondhead.jpg?resize=300%2C176&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/SpouseDiamondhead.jpg?resize=150%2C88&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/SpouseDiamondhead.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>However, on the last day of 2020, I had to make the decision to have him discharged from the hospital to enter hospice care when it was confirmed that his situation had no real chance of improvement. <\/p>\n<p>He is in a state of delirium while his organs are shutting down.<\/p>\n<p>So I am going to end this for now&#8230; just to let readers know why I have been so quiet these last six months.  BTW &#8212; a request &#8212; do NOT wish me a damn &#8220;happy new year.&#8221;  Not feeling it.  Do not send me your &#8220;thoughts and prayers,&#8221; either.  Not feeling that, either.  Just wish my beloved husband peace.<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  too.damn.short.  Love your love like you have never loved your love before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have not been blogging here for a long time because&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-partners"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}