{"id":10413,"date":"2014-07-13T21:57:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T05:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=10413"},"modified":"2014-07-14T20:07:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T04:07:19","slug":"remembering-jane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/remembering-jane\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Jane Aldridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those were the days, right? I haven&#8217;t thought about her until recently, when someone wrote to me, urging me to catch up on her antics. I was too lazy to bother.<\/p>\n<p>But on July 11, I tweeted this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/the-terrible-tweet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10414\" alt=\"the terrible tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/the-terrible-tweet-300x68.jpg?resize=300%2C68\" width=\"300\" height=\"68\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/the-terrible-tweet.jpg?resize=300%2C68&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/the-terrible-tweet.jpg?w=499&amp;ssl=1 499w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Less than 24 hours later, bam, I received this comment on goddamit.com, waiting to be moderated:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/mean-jane-post.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10415\" alt=\"mean-jane-post\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/mean-jane-post.jpg?resize=488%2C584\" width=\"488\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/mean-jane-post.jpg?w=488&amp;ssl=1 488w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/mean-jane-post.jpg?resize=250%2C300&amp;ssl=1 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What?\u00a0 My dead son?\u00a0 The comment was sent from Denton County, Texas. Guess who lives in Denton County?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/denton_map.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10416\" alt=\"denton_map\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/denton_map.gif?resize=479%2C459\" width=\"479\" height=\"459\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What is wrong with people? Is it just Trophy Club or Denton County? Do people understand the concept of losing a child? Hello? Earth to Denton County?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s worse, the cowardice or the deranged free-floating hatred?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, get a grip, Jane, Mom or Aunt Karen. This is some fucked up shit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those were the days, right? I haven&#8217;t thought about her until recently, when someone wrote to me, urging me to catch up on her antics. I was too lazy to bother. But on July 11, I tweeted this: Less than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/remembering-jane\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[307,889],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-2HX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}