{"id":21835,"date":"2013-11-03T23:46:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T23:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/11\/03\/i-feel-awful-saying-this-but-im-used-to-waiting\/"},"modified":"2013-11-03T23:46:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T23:46:30","slug":"i-feel-awful-saying-this-but-im-used-to-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/11\/03\/i-feel-awful-saying-this-but-im-used-to-waiting\/","title":{"rendered":"(I feel awful saying this but I&#8217;m used to waiting for long time , being forgotten and maybe even neglected. But every time I get an answer it feels that much more precious. I have been where you are and I know how it feels. Still am actually but I have one of my better days now. You aren&#8217;t horrible person nor writer, you do what you can and that&#8217;s it. No ones expecting or forcing you to do more, at least not here. If you can&#8217;t eat then maybe you can drink something. At least a little bit. &lt;3 )"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My husband is making me eat some soup.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s my own expectations. I expect better out of myself, not to do the things that annoy me when other people do them. \u00a0I know that I&#8217;m older, more experienced, than a lot of the folk I interact with, so I set my self-expectations accordingly higher &#8212; and I guess beat myself up more when I fail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband is making me eat some soup. It&#8217;s my own expectations. I expect better out of myself, not to do the things that annoy me when other people do them. \u00a0I know that I&#8217;m older, more experienced, than a lot of the folk I interact with, so I set my self-expectations accordingly higher &#8212; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/11\/03\/i-feel-awful-saying-this-but-im-used-to-waiting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">(I feel awful saying this but I&#8217;m used to waiting for long time , being forgotten and maybe even neglected. But every time I get an answer it feels that much more precious. I have been where you are and I know how it feels. Still am actually but I have one of my better days now. You aren&#8217;t horrible person nor writer, you do what you can and that&#8217;s it. No ones expecting or forcing you to do more, at least not here. If you can&#8217;t eat then maybe you can drink something. At least a little bit. &lt;3 )<\/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":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21835"}],"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=21835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}