{"id":64,"date":"2005-02-15T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-16T03:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=65"},"modified":"2005-02-15T21:44:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-16T03:44:00","slug":"change-is-in-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"Change is in the air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something&#8217;s different.  I can &#8216;feel&#8217; it, sense it more than anything else.  It&#8217;s difficult to articulate.  There&#8217;s an anticipation of &#8216;newness&#8217;. Even in my interactions with people, there&#8217;s a freshness.  It&#8217;s like the faint scent of wildflowers on the breeze &#8211; you can&#8217;t see the flowers, but you know they must be near.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still recovering from the year 2004, and slowly, bit by bit, I&#8217;m beginning to experience the changes that God worked within me as I struggled through the past year.  I feel like I&#8217;m taking charge of my life to a depth that I have never experienced before.  The things that used to paralyze me don&#8217;t hold that power anymore.  I feel more &#8216;free&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s so hard to explain.  I&#8217;m only catching brief glimpses of what&#8217;s down there, but I believe as I continue to walk this out, I will settle more and more into who I really am.  It&#8217;s exciting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something&#8217;s different. I can &#8216;feel&#8217; it, sense it more than anything else. It&#8217;s difficult to articulate. There&#8217;s an anticipation of &#8216;newness&#8217;. Even in my interactions [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=64\">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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64"}],"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=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}