{"id":33747,"date":"2012-09-23T05:28:10","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T05:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/09\/23\/sorry-i-didnt-mean-to-make-you-feel-worse\/"},"modified":"2012-09-23T05:28:10","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T05:28:10","slug":"sorry-i-didnt-mean-to-make-you-feel-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/09\/23\/sorry-i-didnt-mean-to-make-you-feel-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry, I didn&#8217;t mean to make you feel worse&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You aren&#8217;t making me feel worse. Just thinking about it doesn&#8217;t usually trigger me. Luckily, or I&#8217;d be in tears every time I went to see my therapist! Most of my struggles are to do with self-esteem, with how I think about myself. There are things about myself that I like quite a lot &#8212; Summer&#8217;s long hair is the same as mine, and it&#8217;s a point of pride with me. Same with my writing.<\/p>\n<p>But when it comes to my looks as a whole, or my general niceness as a person, or my skills at almost anything else, I&#8217;m very leery of compliments, and I&#8217;ll protest as a matter of course that I&#8217;m no good. Not worthwhile as a friend or a person. That secrets meme running &#8216;round the roleplayers? I submitted a couple, about some of my bigger fears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You aren&#8217;t making me feel worse. Just thinking about it doesn&#8217;t usually trigger me. Luckily, or I&#8217;d be in tears every time I went to see my therapist! Most of my struggles are to do with self-esteem, with how I think about myself. There are things about myself that I like quite a lot &#8212; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/09\/23\/sorry-i-didnt-mean-to-make-you-feel-worse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sorry, I didn&#8217;t mean to make you feel worse&#8230;<\/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":[4,3238,414],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33747"}],"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=33747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}