{"id":245,"date":"2008-05-11T14:57:09","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T20:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=313"},"modified":"2008-05-11T14:57:09","modified_gmt":"2008-05-11T20:57:09","slug":"i-havent-been-around-for-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=245","title":{"rendered":"I haven&#8217;t been around for a while"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life has been pretty stressful the last couple of weeks.  And when I&#8217;m stressed I&#8217;m not really thinking about writing anything.<\/p>\n<p>Being a mother can be really really hard sometimes.  It&#8217;s discouraging when all you want to do is help your child and it doesn&#8217;t seem like what you&#8217;re doing is making any difference.  I&#8217;m very thankful for my church who has prayed for me and my family, and who continue to pray.  I appreciate their care and support immensely.<\/p>\n<p>On top of stress in our family life my workplace has been quite stressful lately and I&#8217;m still learning to function in the midst of all that.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say I&#8217;ve been feeling very weary and tired lately.  But God is giving me hope again in the midst of this wilderness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life has been pretty stressful the last couple of weeks. And when I&#8217;m stressed I&#8217;m not really thinking about writing anything. Being a mother can [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=245\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}