{"id":648,"date":"2013-01-01T23:14:36","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T05:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=648"},"modified":"2013-01-01T23:14:36","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T05:14:36","slug":"3-writing-letters-to-my-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=648","title":{"rendered":"#3: Writing letters to my family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came up with this idea while I was brainstorming &#8220;fun&#8221; things and I wanted to make sure I did this before my &#8220;40 days&#8221; were up.\u00a0 Today I wrote a separate letter to each person in my immediate family (including me).\u00a0 I wanted to encourage my family and let them know how much I love them.\u00a0 And I wrote myself a letter to remind me of the things I already know but tend to forget in times of stress or disappointment.\u00a0 Tomorrow I will mail each of the letters and everyone will get something in the mail in a couple of days.\u00a0 I thought this would be fun.\u00a0 First, in the actual writing of the letters (it was!) and second, when everyone receives their letter in the mail.\u00a0 Mailing anything is a big deal for me because I don&#8217;t mail anything to anyone&#8230;ever.\u00a0 So this would be something different and unique and will hopefully encourage and bless the people I care about the most.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to writing letters, I watched the movie &#8220;Independence Day&#8221; (I got it for Christmas and although it&#8217;s a cheesy movie I still really enjoy it) and painted my nails.\u00a0 There!\u00a0 More &#8220;fun&#8221; things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came up with this idea while I was brainstorming &#8220;fun&#8221; things and I wanted to make sure I did this before my &#8220;40 days&#8221; [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=648\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}