{"id":1190,"date":"2016-05-20T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2016-05-19T20:50:39","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T03:50:39","slug":"a-missed-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/2016\/05\/20\/a-missed-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"A Missed Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I lost an e-mail yesterday. \u00a0Completely. \u00a0It came from a man whose last name started with a D and ended, I believe, with an ette. \u00a0His name was not my address database, and I generally read e-mails first before\u00a0adding people to my list. \u00a0After all, if they hate me or my books, there\u2019s not much point.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I started reading the message. He was writing to say what an impact reading Second Watch had on his life. \u00a0I got that far into the e-mail when I realized that, with a new, day-old computer, my mail program needed to have a font adjustment. \u00a0I wanted to use a slightly larger font in order to savor the words, so I stopped in mid-read to make the change. \u00a0But then the font change window showed up and wouldn\u2019t go away. \u00a0I kept trying to close it, and it kept not closing. \u00a0Then, when it finally did close, the half-read e-mail closed as well and disappeared into the ethers. \u00a0And I do mean it was gone. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It wasn\u2019t in my read file or my junk file or in trash, either. \u00a0And\u00a0because all the computers and iPads in the household sync within a matter of minutes, by the time I tried finding the e-mail on another device, it had disappeared from there as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">So this is an e-mail to which I have not responded and will not be able to respond. \u00a0If anyone out there knows this guy, please tell him I\u2019m sorry and ask him to resend. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I lost an e-mail yesterday. \u00a0Completely. \u00a0It came from a man whose last name started with a D and ended, I believe, with an ette. \u00a0His name was not my address database, and I generally read e-mails first before\u00a0adding people to my list. \u00a0After all, if they hate me or my books, there\u2019s not much [&hellip;]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3nsBA-jc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1191,"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions\/1191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}