{"id":496,"date":"2008-10-14T07:58:20","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T07:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.131.168.108\/wordpress\/?p=496"},"modified":"2008-10-14T07:58:20","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T07:58:20","slug":"long-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2008\/10\/14\/long-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday felt so long I find myself a little surprised this morning that today is only Tuesday.&nbsp; Weird&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Eric worked until almost 9:00 pm last night.&nbsp; He did get done what he needed to do, but I was all alone almost all day.&nbsp; And yesterday, that was hard for me.&nbsp; Sometimes it doesn&#8217;t bother me so much&#8230;I guess it was just one of those days.<\/p>\n<p>Random comment:&nbsp; Every morning when I type my post, I wonder why Xanga marks contractions as misspelled words, then changes its mind.&nbsp; I still don&#8217;t get it.<\/p>\n<p>I reconnected with a friend from high school on Facebook the other day.&nbsp; It turns out she lives in the same area of the city as I do.&nbsp; We&#8217;ve been virtually neighbors for years.&nbsp; How strange!<\/p>\n<p>I find myself struggling these days with some familiar old foes.&nbsp; What&#8217;s interesting is that the bible study I&#8217;m doing at church is about seeing mountains move when we pray &amp; praise.&nbsp; So one of the mountains I&#8217;ve been praying about is my tendency to let fear control my life.&nbsp; I guess, then, it shouldn&#8217;t surprise me that opportunities to choose faith over fear are popping up these days.&nbsp; Still, learning to exercise my faith muscles, instead of my fear muscles, is difficult to do.&nbsp; I&#8217;m used to being afraid, of hemming myself in with efforts to control or avoid anything I&#8217;m afraid of.&nbsp; Living in faith feels unprotected and vulnerable.&nbsp; I&#8217;d better keep on praying, huh?<\/p>\n<p>This morning is bible study.&nbsp; I&#8217;m glad to have a place to go and people to be with for at least part of the day.&nbsp; And Eric shouldn&#8217;t be at work so long today, which is good.&nbsp; I may try to get some cleaning done this afternoon, but we shall see.<\/p>\n<p>I guess that&#8217;s all I have&#8230;Have a happy Tuesday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday felt so long I find myself a little surprised this morning that today is only Tuesday.&nbsp; Weird&#8230; Eric worked until almost 9:00 pm last night.&nbsp; He did get done what he needed to do, but I was all alone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2008\/10\/14\/long-day-2\/\">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-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","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=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}