{"id":23205,"date":"2013-12-05T11:48:43","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T16:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=23205"},"modified":"2013-12-05T11:48:43","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T16:48:43","slug":"qotd-wisdom-grief-and-unmentionables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/12\/05\/qotd-wisdom-grief-and-unmentionables\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Wisdom, grief, and &#8220;unmentionables&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I didn\u2019t get it then, but I get it now. Back then, when I was twenty and shiny with immorality and dew, I didn\u2019t get loss. I\u2019d experienced it, of course, but I hadn\u2019t lived long enough to accumulate that patina of loss that I have now at 51. Enough years on this wet blue planet and you\u2019re positively shellacked in loss, one coat over another, dulling your coat like so much floor wax. Back then, when I was twenty, I didn\u2019t get loss and I didn\u2019t get what a new set of extraordinary unmentionables could do for you. <\/p>\n<p>Chelsea G. Summers, <a href=\"http:\/\/prettydumbthings.typepad.com\/chelseagirl\/2013\/12\/unmentionables-the-first.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;unmentionables, the first&#8221;, <em>pretty dumb things<\/em><\/a>, 2013-12-04<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn\u2019t get it then, but I get it now. Back then, when I was twenty and shiny with immorality and dew, I didn\u2019t get loss. I\u2019d experienced it, of course, but I hadn\u2019t lived long enough to accumulate that patina of loss that I have now at 51. Enough years on this wet blue [&hellip;]<\/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,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[598,139,255],"class_list":["post-23205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotations","tag-aging","tag-psychology","tag-sexuality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-62h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23206,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23205\/revisions\/23206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}