{"id":5584,"date":"2012-10-13T09:40:27","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T14:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=5584"},"modified":"2012-10-13T09:40:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T14:40:27","slug":"grieving-or-pity-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=5584","title":{"rendered":"Grieving Or Pity Party."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day when I was sitting at the drive through at my local Micky D&#8217;s, I started crying.\u00a0 I was madly in love with my wife and miss her so very much.\u00a0 And by the time I got to the food window, I was a complete mess.\u00a0 Not wishing to get involved in any discussion with the staff at Micky D&#8217;s, I grabbed my food and drove off.<\/p>\n<p>Now, whenever I have these out breaks, I have to ask myself if I am grieving or just having a &#8220;pity party&#8221;.\u00a0 If I am grieving, then that is normal but if I am just having a pity party, then it needs to stop.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t go through life feeling sorry for myself.\u00a0 So, I remind myself that she is dead and that there is nothing that I can do to change that fact.\u00a0 Get over it and get on with living.<\/p>\n<p>So, the question remains:\u00a0 Grieving or pity party?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day when I was sitting at the drive through at my local Micky D&#8217;s, I started crying.\u00a0 I was madly in love with my wife and miss her so very much.\u00a0 And by the time I got to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=5584\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p20gJN-1s4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5584"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5594,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584\/revisions\/5594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}