{"id":24249,"date":"2013-10-01T04:49:30","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T04:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/01\/the-fact-that-youre-struggling-doesnt-make-you-a\/"},"modified":"2013-10-01T04:49:30","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T04:49:30","slug":"the-fact-that-youre-struggling-doesnt-make-you-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/01\/the-fact-that-youre-struggling-doesnt-make-you-a\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>The fact that you\u2019re struggling doesn\u2019t make you a burden. It doesn\u2019t make you unlovable or undesirable or undeserving of care. It doesn\u2019t make you too much or too sensitive or too needy. It makes you human. Everyone struggles. Everyone has a difficult time coping, and at times, we all fall apart. During these times, we aren\u2019t always easy to be around \u2014 and that\u2019s okay. <\/p>\n<p>No one is easy to be around one hundred percent of the time. Yes, you may sometimes be unpleasant or difficult. And yes, you may sometimes do or say things that make the people around you feel helpless or sad. But those things aren\u2019t all of who you are and they certainly don\u2019t discount your worth as a human being. The truth is that you can be struggling and still be loved. You can be difficult and still be cared for. You can be less than perfect, and still be deserving of compassion and kindness.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><span>Danielle Koepke<\/span> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/growrot.tumblr.com\/\">growrot<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fact that you\u2019re struggling doesn\u2019t make you a burden. It doesn\u2019t make you unlovable or undesirable or undeserving of care. It doesn\u2019t make you too much or too sensitive or too needy. It makes you human. Everyone struggles. Everyone has a difficult time coping, and at times, we all fall apart. During these times, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/01\/the-fact-that-youre-struggling-doesnt-make-you-a\/\" 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\/24249"}],"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=24249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}