{"id":1186,"date":"2012-04-21T18:59:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T22:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/micheleantionette.com\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2012-04-21T18:59:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T22:59:35","slug":"lifes-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/2012\/04\/21\/lifes-struggles\/","title":{"rendered":"Life&#8217;s Struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really love listening to the radio in my car. \u00a0I&#8217;m not talking about music, but about radio talk shows and sermons that come on while driving to and from work. \u00a0Don&#8217;t get me wrong I love listening to music as well but for some reason I have been pulled in a different direction lately. \u00a0Listening to sermons and the news has become more appealing. \u00a0The sermons in particular. \u00a0They capture my attention and the surrounding traffic congestion just seems to disappear. \u00a0I find them to be such a sweet distration.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure where it all started but I now love my morning commute because of the 8:00 A.M. sermon. \u00a0It is funny how the topic seems to always be about something in particular that I am dealing with. \u00a0The topic lately has been about love. \u00a0Loving not only friends and family, but loving strangers as well. \u00a0Reminding yourself to show kindness at all times and to all people. \u00a0Basically the fruits of the spirit including patience, kindness, joy, peace, love, understanding, etc. \u00a0The things we need to survive in a harsh world. \u00a0I&#8217;m struggling with this topic so much and it keeps coming around and hitting me in the face. \u00a0I&#8217;m failing every test put in front of me which only means I will continue to be tested until I pass. \u00a0Life&#8217;s stuggles should be a topic I write about more often lord knows I sure have enough of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really love listening to the radio in my car. \u00a0I&#8217;m not talking about music, but about radio talk shows and sermons that come on while driving to and from work. \u00a0Don&#8217;t get me wrong I love listening to music as well but for some reason I have been pulled in a different direction lately. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/2012\/04\/21\/lifes-struggles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Life&#8217;s Struggles&#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":[5,13,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-friends","category-lifelove","category-religionspirituality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","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=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}