{"id":89,"date":"2006-03-07T17:01:14","date_gmt":"2006-03-07T22:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=89"},"modified":"2006-03-07T17:01:14","modified_gmt":"2006-03-07T22:01:14","slug":"lost-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"Lost Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been months since my last post\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>The cumulative effect of the last 7 months of drastic life changes caught up with me.<\/p>\n<p>I hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t taken the time to fully process each change and as additional ones piled up, my resolve crumbled and I stopped doing all that things I used to enjoy. I was easily frustrated and defeated and I spent most of my free time avoiding &#8230; life <\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d even started to think that my dreams and ambitions were still packed in a box that never made it on the truck headed for Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure if it was the panic of my boss being fired last month or volunteering to edit my quilt guild newsletter or joining a fiber arts guild or just talking to a few old friends but something clicked in my soul&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The emails, letters, smiles and sneak peaks of blogs and lj\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d been avoiding all started to remind me that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not alone.<\/p>\n<p>So I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m dipping my toes back into my life &#8211; slowly re-engaging in all the things that I used to enjoy.  And maybe someday that missing box will resurface. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been months since my last post\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 The cumulative effect of the last 7 months of drastic life changes caught up with me. I hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t taken the time to fully process each change and as additional ones piled up, my resolve crumbled and I stopped doing all that things I used to enjoy. I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}