{"id":12929,"date":"2013-02-15T20:44:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T02:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=12929"},"modified":"2016-06-08T13:32:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T18:32:16","slug":"thank-you-kind-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=12929","title":{"rendered":"Thank You, Kind Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Robert writes:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t mentioned it on the blog until now, but apparently word got out through other channels that my father died on January 26. Much to my surprise &#8212; well, no; very little that MuseBloggers do surprises me anymore. But I was touched and moved to receive by email a sympathy card that several of you jointly designed and created.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll tell you more about my father soon and will try to post Time Capsules of some of his proto-proto-Muserly boyhood papers. Although Dad probably never saw MuseBlog (he developed dementia and stopped using computers about the time I started experimenting with WordPress), he contributed to it in important ways, both by helping to make me the person I am and by inventing some of the cornerstones of MB culture. For example, the useful gender-neutral pronoun &#8220;en&#8221; was his idea, and he would have been delighted to see how it has taken root and flourished on our threads.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll paste in the card itself after the jump. Spoiler alert: it involves space squids. For a naval captain who loved science-fiction, I can think of no more fitting totem animal to guide him on his final voyage.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Card-for-Robert-1.jpg\" alt=\"Sympathy card, page 1\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Card-for-Robert-2-blurred.jpg\" alt=\"Sympathy card, page 2\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert writes: I haven&#8217;t mentioned it on the blog until now, but apparently word got out through other channels that my father died on January 26. Much to my surprise &#8212; well, no; very little that MuseBloggers do surprises me anymore. But I was touched and moved to receive by email a sympathy card that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=12929\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thank You, Kind Friends&#8221;<\/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":[8,13,22,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-nonrandom-craziness","category-sound-and-images","category-time-capsules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12929"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16046,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12929\/revisions\/16046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}