{"id":1489,"date":"2013-12-04T16:41:07","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T16:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulhippo.wordpress.com\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2013-12-04T16:41:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T16:41:07","slug":"argh-another-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2013\/12\/04\/argh-another-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Argh another year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone keeps posting to my email and Facebook to remind me that it&#8217;s my birthday. Hey, I didn&#8217;t pick it, and if I had I would have picked one a lot farther away from a Major Holiday. But yeah, I survived another year. I may not always (often?) be joyful but I survive. I am proud of all the people I have helped to survive better than they were doing; some I have helped get themselves off damaging drugs which were not helping them, some I have actually talked out of suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Sixty-one years of this stuff. I do have more good days than bad, and a lot of the bad days are from my own attitudes, which I continue to work on. Self-esteem is not the easiest things to work on, and it doesn&#8217;t seem to stay there when you move it upward.<\/p>\n<p>May your gods bless you on this and every day. May we all be blessed with a place to call home and people to call family.<\/p>\n<p>So mote it be.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hugs,<\/p>\n<p>Me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone keeps posting to my email and Facebook to remind me that it&#8217;s my birthday. Hey, I didn&#8217;t pick it, and if I had I would have picked one a lot farther away from a Major Holiday. But yeah, I survived another year. I may not always (often?) be joyful but I survive. I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}