{"id":69,"date":"2012-06-04T01:41:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T01:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/?p=69"},"modified":"2015-03-25T15:12:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T15:12:40","slug":"thankful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/?p=69","title":{"rendered":"Thankful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did not want to write today.&nbsp; It has been a long week.&nbsp; The last week of school for my kids and all that entails.&nbsp; The last week to make any changes to my son&#8217;s mainstream plan for next year.&nbsp; The last week to try to meet some friends before summer vacations and moves take place.&nbsp; The last week to have a quiet house for a few hours a day.&nbsp; Add to that, internet trouble and various minor inconveniences of misplaced items.&nbsp; I am tired physically and emotionally.&nbsp; Yet, here I am writing.&nbsp;&nbsp;I&#8217;m writing because my family won&#8217;t let me skip my scheduled writing times.&nbsp; And for that, I am so thankful.<\/p>\n<p>I heard a quote from a football coach today.&nbsp;&nbsp;The main idea was that a coach makes his players do what they don&#8217;t want to do, so they can achieve the goals they have always dreamed of.&nbsp; My family has&nbsp;become my coach.&nbsp; Collectively and individually they push me to do things that I may not want to do, but need to do in order&nbsp;to follow my dream.&nbsp; They know when I am tempted to put off writing, but won&#8217;t let me, even if it means they have to wait for something they want.&nbsp; They know when I am discouraged,&nbsp;so they&nbsp;remind me of my purpose and passion.&nbsp;They will not let me give up or slip into complacency.&nbsp; They will not allow fear or excuses to stand in&nbsp;the way.&nbsp; They continue to push and love me as I work toward my goal.&nbsp;&nbsp;For this precious gift, I am so thankful!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did not want to write today.&nbsp; It has been a long week.&nbsp; The last week of school for my kids and all that entails.&nbsp; The last week to make any changes to my son&#8217;s mainstream plan for next year.&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/?p=69\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}