{"id":369,"date":"2010-08-20T01:47:40","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T01:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=369"},"modified":"2010-08-20T01:47:40","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T01:47:40","slug":"so-long-so-very-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=369","title":{"rendered":"So long&#8230; so very long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s what I think of when I return to my blog. \u00a0It&#8217;s been quite neglected in the past year. \u00a0It&#8217;s not necessarily that I don&#8217;t have things to write about. \u00a0I do. \u00a0Actually, lately I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about how God designed things so we could know Him and how important this theme is, but that will have to wait for another day. \u00a0There&#8217;s nothing really new or interesting in my life &#8211; life has felt &#8216;grey&#8217; for a while. \u00a0After taking 2 weeks off in the summer, I am slowly beginning to realize just how much energy my employment takes out of me. \u00a0I don&#8217;t think of myself as having to work a lot of overtime, but that&#8217;s only part of the story. \u00a0I don&#8217;t have a lot of energy outside of work because I think it takes so much out of me while I am at work. \u00a0It&#8217;s time for a change. \u00a0But until that change happens, I&#8217;m going to keep on keeping on. \u00a0I don&#8217;t have a lot of energy these days but I believe there will come a time in the not too distant future where I will feel energized again and not so stinkin&#8217; drained. \u00a0Till then, I probably won&#8217;t be around here much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s what I think of when I return to my blog. \u00a0It&#8217;s been quite neglected in the past year. \u00a0It&#8217;s not necessarily that I don&#8217;t [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=369\">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":[9,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}