{"id":16340,"date":"2026-09-16T09:29:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T08:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=16340"},"modified":"2026-09-16T09:30:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T08:30:49","slug":"not-deadaversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=16340","title":{"rendered":"Not Deadaversary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those who celebrate the date (my GP, close members of my family) will know that today is the 10th anniversary of me attending the Weekly Dull Meeting in the projects and programmes team of a certain energy company. About halfway through said WDM I began to feel distinctly unwell and not many minutes later I self-diagnosed a heart attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes indeed, ten years have rolled around since my little episode which was swiftly confirmed by and then, a few weeks later, repaired by the staff of the Good Ship NHS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There isn&#8217;t really a moral to this story because I was a) 10 years younger than I am today and b) fit, healthy (!), schooled my horse frequently and did DIY livery (totally fit-making exercise). Except for maybe one or two slightly moralistic angles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Be prepared (have a Will, have it all sorted out, be insured) and <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Look after the NHS (my heart surgeon was from India, my specialist nurses were from all over the world and I really don&#8217;t care where any of these lovely people are from. I&#8217;m only still hanging around here because of them, so you can blame them for this thing if you like, but I will thank them in whatever way I can)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who celebrate the date (my GP, close members of my family) will know that today is the 10th anniversary of me attending the Weekly<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16340","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\/16340","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=16340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16343,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16340\/revisions\/16343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}