{"id":1172,"date":"2012-04-13T09:56:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T13:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/micheleantionette.com\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2012-04-13T09:56:16","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T13:56:16","slug":"asking-for-what-you-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/2012\/04\/13\/asking-for-what-you-want\/","title":{"rendered":"Asking for What You Want"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the first day of my vacation. \u00a0I decided I needed a break from work and asked my boss for a few days off. \u00a0Why is it so hard to ask for what we need? \u00a0I really feel I needed this break since I&#8217;ve been suffering with headaches and feeling tired constantly. \u00a0Asking my boss was the most difficult part. \u00a0It sometimes makes you feel like you can&#8217;t handle life or working full-time when you need to ask for a break.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just wondering why we as Americans are like this. \u00a0In other cultures and societies they spend a lot of time in leisure activities and far less time at work. \u00a0In some European countries their work days are stopped between 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. for rest. \u00a0When we were in preschool we got a 3 hour nap after lunch. \u00a0Why as adults are we so inclined to go nonstop even on weekends? \u00a0I wonder how things will change in the upcoming years. \u00a0Since things are alwys changing I can only hope that the next generation is not overloaded with long work hours and fewer and fewer fun activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the first day of my vacation. \u00a0I decided I needed a break from work and asked my boss for a few days off. \u00a0Why is it so hard to ask for what we need? \u00a0I really feel I needed this break since I&#8217;ve been suffering with headaches and feeling tired constantly. \u00a0Asking my &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/2012\/04\/13\/asking-for-what-you-want\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Asking for What You Want&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-entertainment","category-family-friends","category-healthfitness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}