{"id":794,"date":"2008-06-14T23:12:25","date_gmt":"2008-06-15T03:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/?p=794"},"modified":"2009-10-30T23:14:05","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T03:14:05","slug":"explaining-my-grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/archives\/794","title":{"rendered":"Explaining my grief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ch. 13 of SOTM is off for editing.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll drop a line here when I get it back and put it in the queue at Lit.\u00a0 Work continues on Ch. 14 and Ch. 03 of Merchant Princess.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been shying away from explaining what&#8217;s going on in my life, but I think it&#8217;s about time.<\/p>\n<p>When I started writing Danica&#8217;s story so long ago, I was writing it for one set of eyes only. Those lovely brown eyes were the inspiration for the story, and for Danica. She&#8217;s the lovely lass that adorns my webpages &#8211; the love of my life.<\/p>\n<p>On the day that Ch. 12 of SOTM posted, I lost her. She passed in the night, and I hope and pray that her closed eyes means that she slipped away in her sleep, free of anxiety and pain.<\/p>\n<p>I finally decided that I owed my readers a full explanation for the long delay since my last chapter posted, despite misgivings springing from both my self-contained means of grieving, and not wanting to look as though I was pleading for sympathy.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that explains why it&#8217;s been so difficult to get back to writing, especially Danica&#8217;s story. I appreciate everyone who&#8217;s supported me through this &#8211; both those who knew, and those who could only guess.<\/p>\n<p>My Babydoll lives on in our son, my thoughts, my words, and in Danica. She would have never wanted me to stop writing, and I won&#8217;t. I&#8217;ll keep sharing her with my readers through Danica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ch. 13 of SOTM is off for editing.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll drop a line here when I get it back and put it in the queue at Lit.\u00a0 Work continues on Ch. 14 and Ch. 03 of Merchant Princess. I&#8217;ve been shying away from explaining what&#8217;s going on in my life, but I think it&#8217;s about time. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}