{"id":35130,"date":"2026-01-20T21:51:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T02:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35130"},"modified":"2026-01-20T21:51:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T02:51:22","slug":"a-tough-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35130","title":{"rendered":"A Tough Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not okay today.<\/p>\n<p>My dad is in the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in Lynchburg to visit for a few days, before the large storm hits.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1201\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_20260120_1802531612-1200x1201.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-fullwidth wp-image-35129\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The slim sliver of the moon at sunset brought to mind the same a month ago, when I drove down to Lynchburg to take my dad to a doctor&#8217;s appointment.  It feels both long ago and just a few days ago, but a lunar month is a lunar month.<\/p>\n<p>I found a picture book my mom gave me when I was 12.  That&#8217;s all I&#8217;m going to say on that. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/bafkreieaoywcy6gymkzw3cvtueytmq3yameyqtkxdkknf3qgujm3bm2oi4-1200x675.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-fullwidth wp-image-35128\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At least I cleared over 100 lines at Tetris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not okay today. My dad is in the hospital. I&#8217;m in Lynchburg to visit for a few days, before the large storm hits. The slim sliver of the moon at sunset brought to mind the same a month ago, when I drove down to Lynchburg to take my dad to a doctor&#8217;s appointment.<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35130\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;A Tough Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}