{"id":2187,"date":"2014-10-03T14:06:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T13:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heartshapedpeg.wordpress.com\/?p=30"},"modified":"2014-10-03T14:06:18","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T13:06:18","slug":"end-of-an-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2014\/10\/end-of-an-era\/","title":{"rendered":"end of an era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday evening was my final BothWays Talky Space as a facilitator. It feels very strange &#8211; I facilitated the very first one in September 2009 and I&#8217;ve been at most of the since (I&#8217;ve missed a handful due to other commitments and illness and on one memorable occasion only made it to the last 15 minutes of the two hours because of extreme train problems). I started out as co-facilitator with C and I took over when he moved away &#8211; after a while i was joined by Amo as co-facilitator and now she&#8217;ll be taking over, assisted by Steph.<\/p>\n<p>I know I&#8217;m making the right decision to re-balance by commitments but today I&#8217;m feeling a bit sad and nostalgic&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(and a quiet whisper of feeling proud of the time and effort I&#8217;ve put in even though I&#8217;m very aware of things i could have done better)<\/p>\n<p>Because of family commitments i won&#8217;t be at this month&#8217;s CoffeeMeet so my final one of those as facilitator will be in November.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s not that i&#8217;m leaving BothWays altogether &#8211; after a two or three months break to let things settle down I&#8217;ll be back as a regular group member\/attendee.<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/heartshapedpeg.wordpress.com\/30\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/heartshapedpeg.wordpress.com\/30\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=heartshapedpeg.wordpress.com&#038;blog=58190445&#038;%23038;post=30&#038;%23038;subd=heartshapedpeg&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday evening was my final BothWays Talky Space as a facilitator. It feels very strange &ndash; I facilitated the very first one in September 2009 and I&rsquo;ve been at most of the since (I&rsquo;ve missed a handful due to other commitments and illness and on one memorable occasion only made it to the last 15 [&hellip;]<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=heartshapedpeg.wordpress.com&amp;blog=58190445&amp;post=30&amp;subd=heartshapedpeg&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,3,377,376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism","category-bi","category-group-running","category-groups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8728,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions\/8728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}