{"id":24061,"date":"2018-06-21T20:29:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T03:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=24061"},"modified":"2018-06-21T20:29:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T03:29:21","slug":"goodbye-kay-olson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=24061","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, Kay Olson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/kay-olsen-gimp-parade.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/kay-olsen-gimp-parade-590x1050.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"1050\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-24062\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/kay-olsen-gimp-parade-590x1050.jpg 590w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/kay-olsen-gimp-parade-300x534.jpg 300w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/kay-olsen-gimp-parade-768x1367.jpg 768w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/kay-olsen-gimp-parade-940x1673.jpg 940w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/kay-olsen-gimp-parade.jpg 1151w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Long time &#8220;Alas&#8221; readers may remember Kay Olson, aka Blue, whose blog <a href=\"http:\/\/thegimpparade.blogspot.com\/\">The Gimp Parade<\/a> I linked to frequently. Kay was one of my favorite bloggers, and I learned a lot from her. But she stopped updating The Gimp Parade in 2012, and I lost track of her.<\/p>\n<p>Facing a lack of adequate nursing care, and concerned about the burden her care was on her parents, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kay.fine\/posts\/10160342961310405\">Kay decided<\/a> to move to hospice care in April, and passed away on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kay.fine\/posts\/10160541313115405\">June 12th<\/a>. (Thanks to Bean for letting me know).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s infuriating to think of how things might have been different for Kay in a society with better health care.<\/p>\n<p>The world is better because Kay&#8217;s voice was in it for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long time &#8220;Alas&#8221; readers may remember Kay Olson, aka Blue, whose blog The Gimp Parade I linked to frequently. Kay was one of my favorite bloggers, and I learned a lot from her. But she stopped updating The Gimp Parade &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=24061\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disabled-rights-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24063,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24061\/revisions\/24063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}