{"id":29442,"date":"2024-12-31T13:37:39","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T13:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/31\/an-evening-of-grief-once-turned-into-my-most-liberating-new-years-eve-shanti-nelson\/"},"modified":"2024-12-31T13:37:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T13:37:39","slug":"an-evening-of-grief-once-turned-into-my-most-liberating-new-years-eve-shanti-nelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/31\/an-evening-of-grief-once-turned-into-my-most-liberating-new-years-eve-shanti-nelson\/","title":{"rendered":"An evening of grief once turned into my most liberating New Year\u2019s Eve | Shanti Nelson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019d planned the perfect one-woman sober New Year\u2019s non-party. The night turned into something odder and more cathartic<\/p>\n<p>I scattered my parents\u2019 ashes in the backyard of my childhood home on New Year\u2019s Eve 10 years ago, drunk on grief and prosecco, and buzzed on a borrowed joint and stale fruitcake.<\/p>\n<p>This wasn\u2019t exactly how I\u2019d planned to memorialize my parents. The evening had started innocently enough. A few hours earlier, I had been sipping tea and spooning my cat under a waning moon, with a new Ikea comforter and a fresh bag of Swedish fish. I had resigned myself to an evening devoid of social expectations and alcohol, of endlessly searching for the perfect plan and of the disappointment of never finding it.<\/p>\n<p>Shanti L Nelson is a writer and photographer<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tone\/letters\"> letters<\/a> section, please <a href=\"mailto:guardian.letters@theguardian.com?body=Please%20include%20your%20name,%20full%20postal%20address%20and%20phone%20number%20with%20your%20letter%20below.%20Letters%20are%20usually%20published%20with%20the%20author%27s%20name%20and%20city\/town\/village.%20The%20rest%20of%20the%20information%20is%20for%20verification%20only%20and%20to%20contact%20you%20where%20necessary.\">click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/dec\/31\/new-year-eve\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019d planned the perfect one-woman sober New Year\u2019s non-party. The night turned into something odder and more cathartic I scattered my parents\u2019 ashes in the backyard of my childhood home on New Year\u2019s Eve 10 years ago, drunk on grief and prosecco, and buzzed on a borrowed joint and stale fruitcake. This wasn\u2019t exactly how &#8230; <a title=\"An evening of grief once turned into my most liberating New Year\u2019s Eve | Shanti Nelson\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/31\/an-evening-of-grief-once-turned-into-my-most-liberating-new-years-eve-shanti-nelson\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about An evening of grief once turned into my most liberating New Year\u2019s Eve | Shanti Nelson\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}