{"id":2835,"date":"2020-09-18T21:20:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T03:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lainigiles.com\/?p=2835"},"modified":"2020-09-18T21:20:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T03:20:24","slug":"apologies-for-the-radio-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lainigiles.com\/?p=2835","title":{"rendered":"Apologies for the Radio Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hello everyone, and I&#8217;m sorry for the long absence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those of you who aren&#8217;t on my mailing list and aren&#8217;t aware, we found out back in January that my husband Allan was very sick with a fast-moving, very aggressive form of gastro-esophageal cancer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first few months of the year were a nightmare of caring for him during the Covid epidemic, and trying to keep him (and myself) safe so we wouldn&#8217;t end up separated by quarantine during his final days. He was initially given 8 months, but he passed away in June, and took my heart with him. He died just short of his 52nd birthday and our twentieth anniversary, so I&#8217;ve already had two very difficult occasions to get through. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The grief has been overwhelming, and as you might imagine, it&#8217;s been hard to do much in the way of anything. It was hard even dragging myself out of bed for a while.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m beginning to bounce back, but my regular schedule of writing, editing, formatting, etc has been severely disrupted. I had so hoped that I could offer you a book every other year, but it will be a while before I can release anything. The brain fog is intense, and it&#8217;s hard to concentrate. But I have begun editing in small amounts, and I&#8217;m hoping I&#8217;ll be able to write again soon. It&#8217;s getting easier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m also looking at relocating to another province next year, which means fixing up my house is also taking large chunks of time. I hope you&#8217;ll be patient with me as I do my best to offer you more books on a slightly delayed timetable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to everyone who has emailed and PM&#8217;d. Your messages mean so much to me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laini <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone, and I&#8217;m sorry for the long absence. For those of you who aren&#8217;t on my mailing list and aren&#8217;t aware, we found out back in January that my husband Allan was very sick with a fast-moving, very aggressive form of gastro-esophageal cancer. The first few months of the year were a nightmare of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6vISe-JJ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lainigiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lainigiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lainigiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lainigiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lainigiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lainigiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2836,"href":"https:\/\/lainigiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions\/2836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lainigiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lainigiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lainigiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}