{"id":1369,"date":"2010-02-14T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T11:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gingiber.com\/love-and-a-bit-of-loss-2\/"},"modified":"2010-02-14T11:22:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T11:22:00","slug":"love-and-a-bit-of-loss-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/?p=1369","title":{"rendered":"love and a bit of loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_QUKI7v2vaF0\/S3fc2uMs8JI\/AAAAAAAAAu4\/ThjF6z8yxtY\/s1600-h\/tumblr_kpuahvuqy51qzuhd2o1_500_large.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_QUKI7v2vaF0\/S3fc2uMs8JI\/AAAAAAAAAu4\/ThjF6z8yxtY\/s320\/tumblr_kpuahvuqy51qzuhd2o1_500_large.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>First, sorry for my absence the past few days. Not only did I have a super duper time in Springfield with my dear friend, Jenna, but I have been busy with a few craft projects&#8230; one of which I want to share with you later today!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>However, on this Valentine&#8217;s Day, my heart is heavy. Two people in my life died this week. I guess both were sudden. Death is like having someone remove a little piece of your soul, because after someone dies, you feel a bit emptier than you did before, right?\u00a0 I have not really had that many people I know die. And, I really do not wish to make this a sympathy post. However, I cannot emphasize enough how fragile life is. I want to live fully. I want to embrace the challenges that I face, because they will shape me and surely make me stronger and wiser.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Wow, what a downer of a post for Valentine&#8217;s Day. I will be back later today with a pretty fun little pillow tutorial!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Thanks for reading,<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_QUKI7v2vaF0\/S3fc7Sron8I\/AAAAAAAAAvA\/cH4VsXt0xv8\/s1600-h\/happy-valentines-day_large.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_QUKI7v2vaF0\/S3fc7Sron8I\/AAAAAAAAAvA\/cH4VsXt0xv8\/s320\/happy-valentines-day_large.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span>Stacie<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>(image source &#8220;weheartit&#8221;) <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, sorry for my absence the past few days. Not only did I have a super duper time in Springfield with my dear friend, Jenna, but I have been busy with a few craft projects&#8230; one of which I want to share with you later today! However, on this Valentine&#8217;s Day, my heart is heavy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}