{"id":1690,"date":"2007-02-22T14:09:26","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T14:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shawnna.wordpress.com\/2007\/02\/22\/why\/"},"modified":"2007-02-22T14:09:26","modified_gmt":"2007-02-22T14:09:26","slug":"why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/?p=1690","title":{"rendered":"Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Why a blog? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why &#8220;Reality Covered&#8221;?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Good questions!<\/p>\n<p>For as long as I can remember, people much wiser than I have suggested journaling as a way to sort through the curve balls Life delivers. I was never very good about taking advice and even when I tried that particular bit of wisdom, sticking with that was impossible.<\/p>\n<p>Time to put forth the effort.  It will be a gift to my children to explore when they no longer find ignoring me suitable.<\/p>\n<p>Why &#8220;Reality Covered&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Seems quite appropriate in light of the emotional abuse experienced at a nameless site of a similar name.<\/p>\n<p>Life is about Lessons.  All lessons are mandatory; the learning is optional.  I&#8217;m learning &#8211; quickly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why a blog? Why &#8220;Reality Covered&#8221;? Good questions! For as long as I can remember, people much wiser than I have suggested journaling as a way to sort through the curve balls Life delivers. I was never very good about <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/?p=1690\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-1690","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\/1690","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=1690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}