{"id":274,"date":"2015-01-25T15:27:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T03:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=274"},"modified":"2015-01-25T15:27:33","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T03:27:33","slug":"open-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past week a tragedy struck. \u00a0A baby died, in the North Island. \u00a0And I can&#8217;t stop thinking about this loss. \u00a0This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=1&amp;objectid=11390473\">monumental sadness<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I have written a letter to Mace&#8217;s mama, and here it is:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/loss.pdf\">loss<\/a>. \u00a0For my own benefit as much as anything. \u00a0Because I can&#8217;t stop thinking about them. \u00a0This mother. \u00a0This baby. \u00a0Their family.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t help thinking that this poor baby, this poor woman, have worn the burden that we all feel in the most ghastly way. \u00a0So many of us are too busy. \u00a0Too much going on. \u00a0Heads full. \u00a0Reliant upon routine and vulnerable in the face of change.<\/p>\n<p>This family are the devastated canaries in our weird modern coal mine.<\/p>\n<p>We need to slow the hell down.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week a tragedy struck. \u00a0A baby died, in the North Island. \u00a0And I can&#8217;t stop thinking about this loss. \u00a0This monumental sadness. I have written a letter to Mace&#8217;s mama, and here it is:\u00a0loss. \u00a0For my own benefit &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=274\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}