{"id":30782,"date":"2019-11-25T23:07:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T05:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=30782"},"modified":"2019-11-25T23:07:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T05:07:39","slug":"update-no-i-really-havent-died-ive-just-lost-my-sense-of-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=30782","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: No, I really haven\u2019t died; I\u2019ve just lost my sense of purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/David-mic-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-30177\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/David-mic-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/David-mic-small.jpg 920w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/David-mic-small-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/David-mic-small-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many of you seem to have noticed that I&#8217;ve virtually disappeared lately. I&#8217;ve been getting emails asking what\u2019s going on, and I wanted to give you a brief explanation.<\/p>\n<p>So turn your sound on or put on your earbuds and hit \u201cplay.\u201d I hope this will help explain why I\u2019ve disappeared and when I might return.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Click or tap the \u201cplay button\u201d to listen.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-30782-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/David-crisis.m4a?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/David-crisis.m4a\">https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/David-crisis.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you seem to have noticed that I&#8217;ve virtually disappeared lately. I&#8217;ve been getting emails asking what\u2019s going on, and I wanted to give you a brief explanation. So turn your sound on or put on your earbuds and hit \u201cplay.\u201d I hope this will help explain why I\u2019ve disappeared and when I might <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=30782\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-80u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30782"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30787,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30782\/revisions\/30787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}