{"id":1421,"date":"2011-12-18T18:23:54","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T02:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shawnna.wordpress.com\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2012-03-11T03:28:47","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T03:28:47","slug":"tomorrows-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/?p=1421","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrow&#8217;s the day&#8230;&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>of my hip surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The pain has increased significantly and I&#8217;m so very grateful to have surgery as an option.  I&#8217;ve always been so independent and active.<\/p>\n<p>I know when ever Life Lessons are ignored, they always come back around in some shape or form.<\/p>\n<p>My stubborn independence and difficulty being vulnerable is fueling this particular repeat Life Lesson.  My facade of bravery is just that, a facade.  I&#8217;m painfully aware that much of my anxiety stems from fear; fear of being totally and completely dependent on others.  Such a hard lesson for me that keeps coming back time and time again.<\/p>\n<p>Today is the 4th Sunday of Advent; I love Advent.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Matt is attending a Christmas party and my dear Ryan just finds it hard to engage in this family ritual when it&#8217;s just the two of us.<\/p>\n<p>Alas the cycle of Life.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s our beautiful Advent wreath with presents and tree in the background.  I tried to get as much done as I could before going to the hospital tomorrow.  Still have one gift on it&#8217;s way but generally, Christmas 2011 is ready for us.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shawnna.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/4thSundayofAdvent2011.jpg?w=1080&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"4thSundayofAdvent2011\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1930\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>of my hip surgery. The pain has increased significantly and I&#8217;m so very grateful to have surgery as an option. I&#8217;ve always been so independent and active. I know when ever Life Lessons are ignored, they always come back around <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/?p=1421\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1931,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions\/1931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}