{"id":2630,"date":"2017-01-25T16:59:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T14:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fastlandstois.wordpress.com\/?p=2630"},"modified":"2023-04-14T15:57:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T13:57:30","slug":"life-death-and-sweat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/25\/life-death-and-sweat\/","title":{"rendered":"Life, death and sweat."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January is almost at its end so time for an update on..well life.. and death.<br \/>\nMy biological father lost the fight against Parkinson\u00b4s disease on the 21<sup>st<\/sup> of January.<br \/>\nI miss<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-2631 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/fastlandstois.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/01\/ymge46yy46h6ppzy5dxv.jpg\" alt=\"ymge46yy46h6ppzy5dxv\" width=\"147\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ymge46yy46h6ppzy5dxv.jpg 480w, https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ymge46yy46h6ppzy5dxv-182x300.jpg 182w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 147px) 100vw, 147px\" \/> him greatly, even though we had a complicated relationship over the years. He was still my father and 50% of how I ended up being born. To him, I owe a lot of my characteristics, both good and bad. My favourite traits has to be my blue eyes and my talent for languages. I am grateful for those among many other things.<br \/>\nHe had a profound fascination of the Nordic gods (as well as whiskey) and I imagine him sitting next to Oden, Thor and the rest of the lot having a wee dram in Valhalla and being, maybe just maybe, a tad more humble in the presence of the old gods than he was in life.<br \/>\nSave a seat at the table for when my time comes will ya!<br \/>\nIt\u00b4s safe to say that I could ramble on about him for hours but I choose not to and I\u00b4ll leave it at this.<\/p>\n<p>So..remember when I promised that \u201cBertil\u201d and I would hang out at least two times a week + Kempo two times a week until November? Well..i have held my promise so far and progress is not as slow anymore. I\u2019m moving in the right direction. I think I\u2019ll actually enjoy swimming class with my son on Saturday, given that I get the time to Silk-epil my right leg too (left was done about a week ago). So..on my way towards being in mindblowing shape as we speak J<\/p>\n<p>I have stuff to get done and strooong coffee to sip.<br \/>\nUntil later dear friends, until later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January is almost at its end so time for an update on..well life.. and death. My biological father lost the fight against Parkinson\u00b4s disease on the 21st of January. I miss him greatly, even though we had a complicated relationship over the years. He was still my father and 50% of how I ended up &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,22],"tags":[86,190,217,377,381,567],"class_list":["post-2630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-change","category-family","category-shintai-kempo","tag-death","tag-highland-park","tag-in-memory-of-dad","tag-nordic-gods","tag-odin","tag-valhalla","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3296,"href":"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions\/3296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}