{"id":1615,"date":"2007-12-02T14:01:25","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T20:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2007-12-04T19:30:15","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T02:18:15","slug":"go-getter-eliminates-two-steps-from-grieving-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1615","title":{"rendered":"Go-Getter Eliminates Two Steps From Grieving Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/news_briefs\/go_getter_eliminates_two\">Report<\/a>: &quot;CORNING, CA&mdash;Management consultant and recent widower Greg Pier successfully cut his grieving time by more than a third Friday by eliminating bargaining and depression from the mourning process following the death of his wife. &quot;After three days in denial and a full night of anger, I realized that at that rate, I was never going to get over [wife] Betty&#8217;s passing,&quot; said Pier, who convinced himself it was time to move on with his life after a simple cost-benefit analysis. &quot;What am I supposed to do, mope around all day asking God to take me instead?&quot; Piers noted that his intense grief should be even less time-consuming given his plans to avoid explaining to his children where their mother went.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report: &quot;CORNING, CA&mdash;Management consultant and recent widower Greg Pier successfully cut his grieving time by more than a third Friday by eliminating bargaining and depression from the mourning process following the death of his wife. &quot;After three days in denial &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1615\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satire"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}