{"id":470,"date":"2008-11-18T08:35:38","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T08:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.131.168.108\/wordpress\/?p=470"},"modified":"2008-11-18T08:35:38","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T08:35:38","slug":"deleted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2008\/11\/18\/deleted\/","title":{"rendered":"Deleted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just deleted a very whiny, depressing post.&nbsp; I&#8217;m frustrated and tired of waiting.&nbsp; It feels like the end of a semester: I&#8217;m running out of stamina with a couple of weeks left to go.&nbsp; It was good to get the ideas out of my head, but I decided you all wouldn&#8217;t really benefit from reading it.&nbsp; So it&#8217;s gone.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I need to make a plan for getting over my bad attitude, my frustrations, and myself.&nbsp;&nbsp; So here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve got so far&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spend some really quality time with Jesus today (it&#8217;s been a few days, and it&#8217;s hurting me. I can tell.)<\/li>\n<li>Get myself back into our &#8220;normal&#8221; schedule today<\/li>\n<li>Choose to do creative, productive things instead of focusing on myself.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Find things to be thankful about and then be thankful for them when I&#8217;m tempted to focus on my frustrations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, all these things should be pretty obvious, but apparently, they&#8217;ve eluded me for a few days.&nbsp; And it&#8217;s time to get back to them.&nbsp; On purpose.&nbsp; So here goes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As for the rest of my life&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I had an OB appointment yesterday afternoon.&nbsp; I&#8217;m 2 cm dilated and 50% effaced.&nbsp; So at least my &#8220;cervix of steel&#8221; (that&#8217;s what the high risk nurse said when she saw it on the ultrasound) is starting to give.&nbsp; Anyone want to start guessing how much longer the babies will actually wait?<\/li>\n<li>I should mention, too, that my itching is SO much better these days.&nbsp; Thanks for all the prayers.&nbsp; I still need my arsenal at night (imagine being awakened by the bottoms of your feet itching), but during the day, I use almost nothing to fight the itch.&nbsp; Thank you, Jesus!<\/li>\n<li>I must get groceries today.&nbsp; It&#8217;s getting important.&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s really cold out today, and there&#8217;s a light covering of snow on everything.&nbsp; It&#8217;s quite pretty&#8230;through the window!<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t have any real winter clothes for these last weeks of pregnancy.&nbsp; But there&#8217;s hardly any use buying them now.&nbsp; I guess lots of layers will have to suffice, even if I look silly wearing two sweaters!<\/li>\n<li>Someone that Eric works with gave us a little gift yesterday.&nbsp; It was the quintessential boy\/girl gifts: princess for her, sports for him.&nbsp; The funny thing is that neither of those things apply to me and Eric.&nbsp; I&#8217;m so not the &#8220;princess&#8221; type, and he hates sports.&nbsp; But the gifts are cute, so though we chuckled about it, we will happily use them! <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Okay, that&#8217;s a much less painful post.&nbsp; I&#8217;m glad I deleted the first one.&nbsp; Happy Tuesday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just deleted a very whiny, depressing post.&nbsp; I&#8217;m frustrated and tired of waiting.&nbsp; It feels like the end of a semester: I&#8217;m running out of stamina with a couple of weeks left to go.&nbsp; It was good to get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2008\/11\/18\/deleted\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}