{"id":19587,"date":"2013-12-01T06:29:04","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T06:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/12\/01\/i-know-people-who-feel-like-theyve-wasted-years\/"},"modified":"2013-12-01T06:29:04","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T06:29:04","slug":"i-know-people-who-feel-like-theyve-wasted-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/12\/01\/i-know-people-who-feel-like-theyve-wasted-years\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I know people who feel like they\u2019ve wasted years of their lives because of poor choices. They spent years in a relationship that was toxic, years with an addiction, years at a job where they weren\u2019t fulfilled. But you have to realize, nothing you have been through is ever wasted. Your past experiences, good and bad have deposited something on the inside of you. Those challenges have sharpened you to help make you who you are today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/themeditationresolution.tumblr.com\/\">themeditationresolution<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Trying to remember this today.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/ndnsurgency.tumblr.com\/\">ndnsurgency<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know people who feel like they\u2019ve wasted years of their lives because of poor choices. They spent years in a relationship that was toxic, years with an addiction, years at a job where they weren\u2019t fulfilled. But you have to realize, nothing you have been through is ever wasted. Your past experiences, good and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/12\/01\/i-know-people-who-feel-like-theyve-wasted-years\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19587"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}