{"id":21442,"date":"2020-12-03T12:54:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T17:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=21442"},"modified":"2020-12-03T12:54:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T17:54:21","slug":"a-bit-of-a-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=21442","title":{"rendered":"A bit of a struggle&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;.amid all of the crap that is going on and all of the changes that have been happening, I&#8217;ve had a bit of a struggle lately with losing my long term friendship with T and having so much time alone around here&#8230;and that made me wonder, how are other people handling this? I&#8217;m pretty good at being by myself and I can adapt readily to changes, but what about the people who can&#8217;t? I worry that there is going to be long term psychological damage that won&#8217;t surface for years in many people&#8230;especially those who are on the front lines of this pandemic&#8230;who is going to take care of them when this is over? I read a story this morning about a traveling nurse who showed up at her new job in Arizona and lost 4 patients on the first day&#8230;and it didn&#8217;t get any better after that&#8230;what happens to her? I know people are tough but are they tough enough to handle that? I guess what is happening in this country is weighing on me a bit&#8230;.and not being able to find a house is stressing me the hell right out&#8230;but, we move on&#8230;one foot in front of the other&#8230;what else can you do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;.amid all of the crap that is going on and all of the changes that have been happening, I&#8217;ve had a bit of a struggle lately with losing my long term friendship with T and having so much time alone around here&#8230;and that made me wonder, how are other people handling this? I&#8217;m pretty good &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=21442\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A bit of a struggle&#8230;<\/span> <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":[39],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-21442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21443,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21442\/revisions\/21443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}