{"id":3536,"date":"2021-04-13T13:31:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T21:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/?p=3536"},"modified":"2021-04-13T15:33:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T23:33:13","slug":"in-a-trees-rings-you-can-see-the-years-of-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2021\/04\/13\/in-a-trees-rings-you-can-see-the-years-of-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;In a tree&#8217;s rings you can see the years of drought.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sumana&#8217;s been on a pretty amazing run of posts, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harihareswara.net\/sumana\/2021\/04\/13\/0\" title=\"All of this as I'm thinking about some kind of desperate hackathon to save Peach.\">this one struck me right through<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We come together every once in a while to refill on trust and camaraderie and a shared understanding of what we&#8217;re trying to do and who we&#8217;re trying to do it for; I assume that, for some folks, those wells have now run dry.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Eight years ago, I was already feeling a kind of nostalgia for my own version of <a href=\"\/nfd\/2013\/07\/09\/this-isnt-even-counting-bax-which-would-technically-make-this-years-begin-in-fucking-february\/\" title=\"I've had to change some names in that list; I have resisted deleting others.\">con season<\/a>, even though I was right there in the thick of it. A long summer is one thing, but a drought is another. I feel the ache for my friends as if it&#8217;s a loss, even though, by impossible fortune, I don&#8217;t think I have lost anyone yet. But the time we could have spent together is life we won&#8217;t get back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sumana&#8217;s been on a pretty amazing run of posts, and this one struck me right through: &#8220;We come together every once in a while to refill on trust and camaraderie and a shared understanding of what we&#8217;re trying to do and who we&#8217;re trying to do it for; I assume that, for some folks, those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,136,118,93,28,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-angst","category-gpnw","category-nostalgia","category-programming","category-sumana-harihareswara","category-travel-and-acronyms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3536"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3541,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536\/revisions\/3541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}