{"id":167,"date":"2006-01-06T10:06:37","date_gmt":"2006-01-05T23:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/01\/06\/it-is-what-julian-would-have-wanted\/"},"modified":"2006-01-06T10:06:37","modified_gmt":"2006-01-05T23:06:37","slug":"it-is-what-julian-would-have-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/01\/06\/it-is-what-julian-would-have-wanted\/","title":{"rendered":"It is what Julian would have wanted&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am concerned that when I die, it will be like in the movies or on TV. Someone will turn to the bereaved and say &#8220;We have to continue with the big match\/mountain ascension\/wild sex party\/insert-project-name-here.  It is what Julian would have wanted&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I think that is a little bit too much pressure to put upon the grief-stricken. <\/p>\n<p>I am quite happy for the bereaved to focus on dealing with their grief &#8211; graveside vigils; weeping themselves to sleep with the words &#8220;Julian, I still love you&#8221; on their lips; building monuments in my honour; breaking down on the street screaming &#8220;Why? Why is it always the handsome, intelligent and brave ones that go?&#8221;; investigating the process of canonisation, etc.<\/p>\n<p>They are going to be quite busy with these tasks. Given that I am dead, I don&#8217;t care that much any more about the big project.<\/p>\n<p>After all, you could just outsource it.  It is what Julian would have wanted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am concerned that when I die, it will be like in the movies or on TV. Someone will turn to the bereaved and say &#8220;We have to continue with the big match\/mountain ascension\/wild sex party\/insert-project-name-here.  It is what Julian would have wanted&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-observation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}