{"id":2581,"date":"2019-12-16T07:01:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T12:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=2581"},"modified":"2019-12-13T16:08:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T21:08:01","slug":"learning-to-laugh-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/learning-to-laugh-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Laugh Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Learning-to-Laugh-Again.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2582\" title=\"Learning to Laugh Again\" src=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Learning-to-Laugh-Again.jpg\" alt=\"Learning to Laugh Again\" width=\"900\" height=\"1218\" data-popupalt-original-title=\"null\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Learning-to-Laugh-Again.jpg 900w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Learning-to-Laugh-Again-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Learning-to-Laugh-Again-757x1024.jpg 757w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Learning-to-Laugh-Again-768x1039.jpg 768w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Learning-to-Laugh-Again-624x844.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<pre class=\"moz-quote-pre\">\u201cI\u2019m bringing over my leftover bottle of Vouvray.  Also, can I pick up some chicken thighs for us to do up? They\u2019re supposed to be healthy for you so I\u2019ll be wanting to learn how to make magnificent thighs.\u201d\r\n\r\nThat\u2019s what I thought I had texted to the girlfriend I often have dinner with. Only, somehow I ended up sending the text to my carpenter (who knows us both), (who\u2019s young and married) instead. He texted back, \u201cSounds good! Hehe.\u201d Then, for the first time in years, I laughed ferociously.\r\n\r\nThe sound reminded me of my dead mother\u2019s laugh. A hysterical high shriek that blasted out in between gasps for breath. My friend thought I was crying. And later I did cry, feeling guilty about feeling good, and missing my mother and my daughter and the days when laughing was simply a part of living. \r\n\r\nI\u2019m learning to laugh again. It will take some practice.\r\n\r\nWhat\u2019s out there to laugh about?<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m bringing over my leftover bottle of Vouvray. Also, can I pick up some chicken thighs for us to do up? They&rsquo;re supposed to be healthy for you so I&rsquo;ll be wanting to learn how to make magnificent thighs.&rdquo; That&rsquo;s what I thought I had texted to the girlfriend I often have dinner with. Only, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1758],"tags":[1992],"class_list":["post-2581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1758","tag-learning-to-laugh-again"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}