{"id":72,"date":"2012-05-24T01:52:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T01:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/?p=72"},"modified":"2015-03-25T15:12:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T15:12:40","slug":"bravery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Bravery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard two stories of bravery today.&nbsp; One was of a teenage girl; the other a middle aged woman.&nbsp; Both of them bravely decided not to settle.&nbsp; They wanted more from their relationships.&nbsp; They knew they deserved better.&nbsp; So they let go of what they had, trusting for better.&nbsp; That is bravery that I want to celebrate!&nbsp; And it inspires me.<\/p>\n<p>I think we so often settle.&nbsp; We settle for what we see.&nbsp; We settle for what we know, even if we don&#8217;t really like it.&nbsp; We settle because we don&#8217;t want to make waves.&nbsp; We don&#8217;t want to be seen in a negative way.&nbsp; We want to be liked.&nbsp; We begin to settle so much in our lives that we lose sight of what we really want and need.&nbsp; Soon we are living a life that is so much less than what we dreamed it could be.&nbsp; But like these women, we too can be brave.&nbsp; We can make those difficult decisions, have those difficult conversations, and make necessary changes.&nbsp;&nbsp; We do not have to settle.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Today, I choose to be brave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard two stories of bravery today.&nbsp; One was of a teenage girl; the other a middle aged woman.&nbsp; Both of them bravely decided not to settle.&nbsp; They wanted more from their relationships.&nbsp; They knew they deserved better.&nbsp; So they &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/?p=72\">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-72","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\/72","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=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}