{"id":356,"date":"2008-12-29T01:53:04","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T09:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/?p=356"},"modified":"2011-07-04T18:20:04","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T22:20:04","slug":"arrived-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/arrived-yesterday","title":{"rendered":"Arrived yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard not to regret.  We do what we do, and have to accept the past.  However, it&#8217;s not really what we&#8217;ve done, it&#8217;s how we&#8217;ve learned from that and what we do next.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve made my way through different phases.\u00a0 Blaming myself for I did or didn&#8217;t do.\u00a0 Regret.\u00a0 Numbness.\u00a0 Finally, acceptance&#8230;\u00a0 and I don&#8217;t mean the &#8220;I give up&#8221; kind.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the emotional news, I&#8217;m happy to say the flight was smooth.\u00a0 All the flights were on time, and I caught the train, no problem.\u00a0 I almost got stuck at the train station&#8230;\u00a0 but luckily the hotel there allowed me to use the phone.<\/p>\n<p>While on my flight from Seattle, while sitting in seat &#8220;3D&#8221;, I sat next to a woman who was a strong believer in alternative medicine.\u00a0 She also described herself as a &#8220;psychic&#8221;.\u00a0 Funny, because that was the last piece of advice that Warren gave me before I left, &#8220;Go see a psychic&#8221;.\u00a0 Note:\u00a0 Drink more water.<\/p>\n<p>I usually stick the science proven methods, but I think I need to believe in a little bit of magic right now.\u00a0 I need a little hope.\u00a0 Without the hope, well&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0 it&#8217;s hard to find energy anywhere else at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m doing everything I can to prevent myself from crawling up into a ball and giving up. So many changes that were in progress&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0 but when we hit the third period, the stands were empty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard not to regret. We do what we do, and have to accept the past. However, it&#8217;s not really what we&#8217;ve done, it&#8217;s how we&#8217;ve learned from that and what we do next. I&#8217;ve made my way through different phases.\u00a0 Blaming myself for I did or didn&#8217;t do.\u00a0 Regret.\u00a0 Numbness.\u00a0 Finally, acceptance&#8230;\u00a0 and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[157],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}