{"id":7125,"date":"2016-11-10T08:33:09","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T21:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=7125"},"modified":"2016-11-10T08:33:09","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T21:33:09","slug":"for-anyone-experiencing-grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=7125","title":{"rendered":"For anyone experiencing grief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel for you, I really do, if you are grieving right now. I&#8217;ve had a pretty intense year myself, and I thought I&#8217;d share my favourite distractions as well as a thoughtful speaker\/sharer on the topic.<\/p>\n<p>1\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b013pqnm\" target=\"_blank\">The Great British Bake Off\/ The Great British Baking Show<\/a><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MCjTFVeCsz8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I have watched all 7 series, multiple times, in the last 12 months. And in that time I have come to realise that the nurturing implied in just watching someone make a cake is strangely healing. (And this from someone who is allergic to 90% of the contents of what they&#8217;re usually baking.)<\/p>\n<p>I believe that this is available on PBS and other streaming services (Netflix is where I saw it) and some can be found on YouTube. Start with Season Six (renamed Season Three in the States I think?) if you want a quick reminder of what&#8217;s right in the world.<\/p>\n<p>2\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.logotv.com\/shows\/rupauls-drag-race\" target=\"_blank\">RuPauls Drag Race<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You will be surprised at the nurturing vibe this has for a reality show, though it&#8217;s never beyond RuPaul and team (Ms Visage, I&#8217;m giving you the side-eye here&#8230;) to tell their charges when they gotta cut with the tears and WERK! Let Mama Ru challenge, shelter and shower you with praise, via your beautiful and enormously talented queer proxy.<\/p>\n<p>Find this on Logo TV or where I&#8217;ve seen all my eps, Amazon Prime.<\/p>\n<p>I also follow local (to Seattle) grief writer Elizabeth Copelan on Twitter, she posts great links and says some <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ElizabethCoplan\" target=\"_blank\">beautiful things<\/a>. And yes, even I can&#8217;t believe that I&#8217;m recommending reality TV to mend broken hearts, but, like I said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=6755\" target=\"_blank\">a hell of a year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s ok, together we will get through this. And once you&#8217;re ready again, there&#8217;s going to be lots of work for everyone!<\/p>\n<p>Now, not to get too far ahead of myself, but my sleepless portion of the night was quite productive. Stay tuned for the profits&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something for people who are grieving today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7125"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7131,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7125\/revisions\/7131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}