{"id":15987,"date":"2025-09-23T08:57:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T07:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=15987"},"modified":"2025-09-22T15:33:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T14:33:35","slug":"not-being-dead-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=15987","title":{"rendered":"Not being dead (still)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I missed this anniversary but what the heck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 years and 1 week ago today (as I said, I missed the anniversary) I was sitting in a board meeting at my employer&#8217;s head office (without hesitation, the worst company I have ever worked for) when I rapidly began to feel very unwell. After 2 or 3 minutes I had ticked all of the symptoms on my mental checklist. Yep, I was having a heart attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Long story very short and also here&#8217;s a bit of a spoiler: I lived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Isn&#8217;t the NHS absolutely bloody wonderful?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I missed this anniversary but what the heck. 9 years and 1 week ago today (as I said, I missed the anniversary) I was sitting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15987"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15995,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15987\/revisions\/15995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}