{"id":775,"date":"2010-07-27T14:42:57","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T18:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=775"},"modified":"2010-07-27T15:02:15","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T19:02:15","slug":"whew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=775","title":{"rendered":"Whew&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;it&#8217;s later in the day and reason has substituted for pain&#8230;.so I&#8217;m glad I&#8217;ve waited this long to come back today, or I would have had to delete any post that I would have written. It&#8217;s been a tough couple of days emotionally for me but I don&#8217;t want to get into that as yet&#8230;I will later, but it gets back to the change thing that I struggle with all the time and how it relates to friendship. I see mine dying all the time and I really don&#8217;t know what to do about it&#8230;I usually attribute it to the changes that come with differing stages of life; stages that I&#8217;ve already gone through but is that it? That&#8217;s the problem, I don&#8217;t know. I also don&#8217;t know if I have the energy or desire to try to construct new ones&#8230;just to have them die and end up back here thinking about it again. <\/p>\n<p>I do know one thing&#8230;that I have depended on these relationships too much; have given them more value than I should have; even defined myself by them&#8230;but that is just me..basically all or nothing when it comes to everything&#8230;you get a huge high when it is working but I don&#8217;t know if the inevitable low and pain is worth it&#8230;.more later&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Oh&#8230;I would like to claim that first line as my own&#8230;but, it is borrowed from the song &#8220;Live My Life Again&#8221; by Jim Fox&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;it&#8217;s later in the day and reason has substituted for pain&#8230;.so I&#8217;m glad I&#8217;ve waited this long to come back today, or I would have had to delete any post that I would have written. It&#8217;s been a tough couple of days emotionally for me but I don&#8217;t want to get into that as yet&#8230;I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=775\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Whew&#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-775","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\/775","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=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}