{"id":9327,"date":"2026-01-18T21:36:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T03:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/?p=9327"},"modified":"2026-01-18T21:36:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T03:36:02","slug":"death-spiral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/2026\/01\/18\/death-spiral\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Spiral"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I got up reasonably early again today, expecting to do some more cleaning and furniture assembly, but boy was I wrong. I felt pretty ignored all day. The girls went to the gym together, so I finished the leftover turkey bean soup and took a bath. Summer barely approached me when they got back, and didn&#8217;t acknowledge my response when she asked what was wrong, so I knew something was up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She warmed up some pasta, but I didn&#8217;t end up eating with them. Mom had said she was making ph\u1edf at some point, so I had been holding out for that. Eaddie left and I finally pinned Summer down to figure out what was going on. She acknowledged the same death spiral I had been feeling for the past few years. We talked for a bit, but it was mostly emotionless by that point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I took Muad&#8217;Dib for a brisk walk to my parents&#8217; house where Dad and Nova were already halfway through their soup. Mom made mine and I ate, and then we walked back to the house. I felt like our conversation after that was a little less doom and gloom, but we still don&#8217;t have anything actionable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got up reasonably early again today, expecting to do some more cleaning and furniture assembly, but boy was I wrong. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[82,56,96,29,36,66,71],"class_list":["post-9327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-depression","tag-disappointment","tag-dog","tag-family","tag-food","tag-frustration","tag-sad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9328,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9327\/revisions\/9328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}