{"id":2378,"date":"2008-07-10T13:29:34","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T18:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2378"},"modified":"2017-07-20T14:20:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T19:20:30","slug":"the-last-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/just-browsing\/the-last-post\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobodyasked.com\/\">friend<\/a> of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pureland.blogspot.com\/\">friend<\/a> died recently. I&#8217;d never met him, not in the real world, nor my friend either. And yet there is a hole left in my world marking his place in my life. Winston Rand&#8230;He was a pretty good guy.<\/p>\n<p>Winston wrote vibrantly right up to the end. In the week before his death he wrote a post, &#8220;Fears of My Demise&#8230;&#8221; not about dying but about upgrading to the most recent version of WordPress. He was thinking about buying a cool little Honda scooter. One of his own favorite posts (and a favorite among his readers) was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobodyasked.com\/2008\/04\/14\/will-to-live\/\">A Will to Live&#8230;Revisited<\/a> written just two months before his death.<\/p>\n<p>Reading through the archives of Winston&#8217;s blog got me wondering about all the blogs that will live on after their authors are dead. Will I have written something worth reading or will it be just an embarrassing mind dump, my usual litany of complaints about the weather? How much of this is just chatter? Shouldn&#8217;t I write every post giving it the attention I would if I knew it were my last?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What will your last post say about you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5596,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378\/revisions\/5596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}