{"id":827,"date":"2012-05-22T09:31:13","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T14:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/?p=827"},"modified":"2012-05-22T09:34:33","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T14:34:33","slug":"two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/22\/two-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/How-I-found-out-about-the-accident.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-828\" title=\"How-I-found-out-about-the-accident\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/How-I-found-out-about-the-accident.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1021\" height=\"941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/How-I-found-out-about-the-accident.jpg 1021w, https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/How-I-found-out-about-the-accident-300x276.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1021px) 100vw, 1021px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll try to post a multi-month roundup at some point, to kind of summarize what&#8217;s been going on since January, but in the meantime just wanted to post something to describe that Tuesday two years ago when I learned about what had happened to my brother.<\/p>\n<p>I was about to head off to lunch;\u00a0 it felt like any other Tuesday.\u00a0 One of Chris&#8217;s coworkers sent me a message on Facebook, wondering why Chris never showed up to work.\u00a0 Texted Chris, called him, no answer.\u00a0 Chris&#8217;s coworkers quickly discovered the WOAI news story about an accident involving a motorcycle the night before, and determined the motorcyclist was indeed at University Hospital&#8230;\u00a0 and most likely Chris.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t describe how badly I started shaking when I saw the photo from the scene of the accident.\u00a0 It was definitely Chris&#8217;s bike.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t get a hold of my parents &#8211; they were already in the air, flying to Texas for a weekend in San Antonio as a family.\u00a0 Memorial Day weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Chris&#8217;s coworkers gave me a number for a nurse in the STICU at University Hospital, I told her I was on the way.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t control the shaking as I wobbled the two mile motorcycle ride home from work;\u00a0 the drive to San Antonio from Austin was a blur.\u00a0 It rained torrentially all the way there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll try to post a multi-month roundup at some point, to kind of summarize what&#8217;s been going on since January, but in the meantime just wanted to post something to describe that Tuesday two years ago when I learned about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/22\/two-years\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}