{"id":155,"date":"2009-05-22T15:04:16","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T19:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/?p=155"},"modified":"2009-05-22T15:04:16","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T19:04:16","slug":"not-dead-not-in-fact-deceased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/2009\/05\/not-dead-not-in-fact-deceased\/","title":{"rendered":"Not dead.  Not, in fact, deceased."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m alive, and in fact have been writing all this time, albeit in smaller, 140-character chunks on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/DanielTharp\">Twitter account<\/a>.  So what happened after that fateful evening of March 15th?  Well, an hour or two after writing that, I sent a message to a member on Basenotes named exquisitely_me, and the message said&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;What&#8217;s new with you? :)&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> The conversation&#8217;s been going on for over two months since then, and I&#8217;ve discovered some new things, namely that I love this girl named exquisitely_me and she loves me back.  The gossip was a-flyin&#8217; when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/people\/Daniel-Tharp\/38313184\">Facebook<\/a> had the hot scoop around the end of March, it was the first to report that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Daniel is in a relationship with Diana Kotyk.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I fell completely off the map for about eleven days starting back on the 9th of this month, the last bit of communication being a <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/DanielTharp\/status\/1751798789\">tweet<\/a> that said&#8230; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Diana is going to be in my arms in five minutes tops!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> I did manage to get off one little <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/DanielTharp\/status\/1822706869\">blurb<\/a> during that time, that read&#8230; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I am having, without reservation, the best week of my life.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> My perfume reviews have been on pen and paper, shoulder to shoulder with Diana, over a vial of fragrance, or perhaps a verbal review (also known as an &#8216;opinion&#8217;), soft words of like or dislike, learning, exploring, and expanding knowledge of the art.  She&#8217;s encouraged me to get back into writing, though, so I trade comfortable seclusion for another round of writing for the masses.<\/p>\n<p>In love.  That&#8217;s where I&#8217;ve been, and in fact it&#8217;s the locale I write from even now, dear reader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m alive, and in fact have been writing all this time, albeit in smaller, 140-character chunks on my Twitter account. So what happened after that fateful evening of March 15th? Well, an hour or two after writing that, I sent a message to a member on Basenotes named exquisitely_me, and the message said&#8230; &#8220;What&#8217;s new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-danieltharpcom","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1RwV4-2v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}