{"id":189,"date":"2012-10-01T21:43:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T01:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulhippo.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/01\/wondering-what-it-takes\/"},"modified":"2012-10-01T21:43:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T01:43:12","slug":"wondering-what-it-takes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2012\/10\/01\/wondering-what-it-takes\/","title":{"rendered":"Wondering what it takes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know what to think of myself.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a decent musician. I&#8217;ve managed a staff of wonderful editors. I helped found and settled the nation&#8217;s first membership organization for homeless people. I helped found a network of pagans in Denver, and was in on the founding of the first major pagan festival in Colorado. I have the most amazing friends, from Gianna Kali to Dr. Paula Caplan to David Oaks to some of the finest editors in the world to my wonderful Xanga friends (yes, I mean you, Moonlit_Lass). I am in the most wonderful Family. And while it took most of my life, my mother is even a fan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But here I am, struggling with my life, with a wonderful sweetheart who does not believe in herself, and working at a minimum wage job (yes, it&#8217;s a wonderful job, helping hundreds of people, but there&#8217;s not that much future). And I&#8217;m almost 60 years old.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what it will take to get over the top, and feel like I&#8217;m running out of time.<\/p>\n<p>Any prayers, thoughts, endorsements will help.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hugs,<\/p>\n<p>Me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know what to think of myself. I&#8217;m a decent musician. I&#8217;ve managed a staff of wonderful editors. I helped found and settled the nation&#8217;s first membership organization for homeless people. I helped found a network of pagans in Denver, and was in on the founding of the first major pagan festival in Colorado. [&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-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","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=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}