{"id":565,"date":"2010-09-27T23:12:52","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T04:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/?p=565"},"modified":"2017-10-08T19:46:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T00:46:29","slug":"shine-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2010\/09\/27\/shine-on","title":{"rendered":"Shine On"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you may recall, back on January 24, 2008, I lost my grandmother<\/a>. As said in that title, she was supposed to live forever. But she didn’t. -_-<\/p>\n

That’s okay! I still had another grandmother who was REALLY supposed to live forever! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

Er, no. We lost her last night to massive heart complications. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

Widad S<\/b>
\nMarch 25, 1926 – September 26, 2010<\/p>\n

Nice job so far, 2010. First Nigel and now… my last grandparent! What the FUCK?! :doitnow:<\/p>\n

Oh, damn, that’s right. My last grandparent. When I was born, I only had the two grandmothers to begin with, their husbands having died in the 1970s, long before I came along. Now they’re both gone, off into whatever happens next. Along with my grandmother, I suppose a certain aspect of my youth was lost with her. Now my parents are the elders. Weeeeeird.<\/p>\n

So, what am I to do about it? I realize my response here seems very different from losing Grandma. Certainly doesn’t mean I’m mourning any less now. Just acknowledging that I perhaps deal with this differently from before, and, despite being related to them both in the same way, they still held different roles in my life.<\/p>\n

And anyone’s death, especially a grandparent I suppose, serves to remind that we’re all like a whole lot of twinkling stars. We come into existence and shine and shine for however long before we are extinguished. Stars of course go billions of years. We humans go a hell of a lot shorter than that. So we must make sure we shine as bright as we can, and in doing so inspire the other stars to shine bright. Like a shiny chain reaction. Of shininess.<\/p>\n

Yeah, what do you want? I didn’t study astronomy and got a D in physics. Whatever.<\/p>\n

Anyway, scientific inaccuracy of metaphor notwithstanding, what are we doing to shine bright? What am I doing? Well, I’m with NYRA and as such trying to make the world better by promoting youth rights! Quite proud of that.<\/p>\n

Then another thought occurred to me. My newly lost grandmother is my mom’s mom, the Arab side of my family. So, yeah, I’m part-Arab and working on civil rights activism. Nice.<\/p>\n

I wonder what other Arab-blooded American activists there are…<\/p>\n

Oh, wait…<\/p>\n

SHIT!<\/a><\/p>\n

I have a lot of work to do. :\\<\/p>\n

(Lower the drinking age.) \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As you may recall, back on January 24, 2008, I lost my grandmother. As said in that title, she was supposed to live forever. But she didn’t. -_- That’s okay! I still had another grandmother who was REALLY supposed to live forever! \ud83d\ude00 Er, no. We lost her last night to massive heart complications. \ud83d\ude41 … Continue reading “Shine On”<\/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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-think-about-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1476,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions\/1476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}