{"id":336,"date":"2004-01-05T13:05:58","date_gmt":"2004-01-05T13:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=336"},"modified":"2004-01-05T13:05:58","modified_gmt":"2004-01-05T13:05:58","slug":"people_come_peo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=336","title":{"rendered":"People Come, People Go"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, one of my nurses abruptly informed me, via e-mail, that she was quitting. This came as something of a surprise to me because she has been with me for several years and I really enjoyed her presence here. And now she’s suddenly gone. I’ve been trying to figure out if I said or did something to cause this, but I think it had more to do with her personal circumstances. Over the years, dozens of nurses have drifted in and out of my life and I’ve developed close friendships with some of them. But they are here, after all, to do a job and people change jobs all the time. I’ve grown accustomed to sudden staffing changes like this, but it can still be a little jarring. Fortunately, I still have plenty of nurses and filling the gaps shouldn’t be a problem.
\nBalls of fire are falling from the sky in Spain<\/a>. Strange. The Great Overlord of Tau Ceti VI assured me that the invasion wouldn’t begin until June or July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, one of my nurses abruptly informed me, via e-mail, that she was quitting. This came as something of a surprise to me because she has been with me for several years and I really enjoyed her presence here. And now she’s suddenly gone. I’ve been trying to figure out if I said or did […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-5q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}