{"id":2161,"date":"2013-07-03T18:39:04","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T00:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/?p=2161"},"modified":"2013-07-03T18:39:04","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T00:39:04","slug":"july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/03\/july","title":{"rendered":"July"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Iris\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Regular readers of this blog have almost certainly noticed a paucity of postings over about the last 12 months, even compared to my usual low level of activity here. The short version of the explanation is this: the last 13 months have been very difficult for Tracie, and–by association–for me as well. To put it bluntly, things have been so difficult that I haven’t particularly felt like writing about much of anything, most of the time.\n<\/p>\n

Over the past month, I’ve mentally worked on a long version of the explanation. It involves two incurable illnesses, one excruciating nerve condition, more than half a dozen doctors, more appointments with doctors than I can count, many tough choices and several disappointments. The story isn’t all bad; there have been triumphs as well, and Tracie’s in good shape now. But it’s going to take some time to write, and I find myself avoiding the trip down memory lane, because that lane is really rough for the last year.\n<\/p>\n

However, I also have a backlog of other things to write about. I’ve found myself holding those up because I wanted to first write the aforementioned tale as the anniversary of its beginning approached in June. But if I continue to do that, who knows when I’ll get around to posting anything at all here. So, to break this bit of mental congestion, I’m putting up this brief explanation as a way of giving myself permission to move along to other topics.\n<\/p>\n

In other words: I wasn’t writing much for a long time because I didn’t feel like writing about what was dominating my attention for a long time, which was Tracie’s health issues. It just didn’t seem attractive to write a series of posts that would have all been along the lines of “things sucked before, and got worse today, and will probably still suck for awhile.” Now things don’t suck so much, and while I intend to write a retrospective account of exactly how they sucked, writing that account is gonna suck in itself, so I’m putting it off and writing about things that don’t suck. Sound good?\n<\/p>\n

Irises, for instance, do not suck. The lovely specimen pictured above is currently blooming in one corner of our yard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Regular readers of this blog have almost certainly noticed a paucity of postings over about the last 12 months, even compared to my usual low level of activity here. The short version of the explanation is this: the last 13 months have been very difficult for Tracie, and–by association–for me as well. To put it… Continue reading July<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2164,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions\/2164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}