{"id":535,"date":"2003-11-28T01:54:22","date_gmt":"2003-11-28T09:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/?p=535"},"modified":"2003-11-28T01:54:22","modified_gmt":"2003-11-28T09:54:22","slug":"blessings-in-disguise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/2003\/11\/28\/blessings-in-disguise\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessings in disguise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was tougher than usual to give thanks today. I had to keep reminding myself that the work that I have to do &#8212; the work that I&#8217;ve been doing until now, 1:30 in the morning, and the work that I&#8217;ll resume when I get back to my place tomorrow &#8212; is actually a blessing.<br \/>\n<!--I am lucky to have a job, but it is a miracle that I have freelance work, too. I know so many people who are still out of work.--><\/p>\n<p>I had to skip out on the Thanksgiving festivities early, missing the bad movie sequels screening and the second round of pigging out. <!--Tomorrow, I will miss volunteering at Catholic Worker, my favorite local nonprofit org, and Christmas shopping with Mom. Saturday and Sunday willrobably be sucked up by work, too.--><\/p>\n<p>Instead, I slipped into my pajamas and set up desk in my parents&#8217; office. My mom played Wheel of Fortune on her PC, while I cropped photos on my iBook. The only time I got up was to get dessert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was tougher than usual to give thanks today. I had to keep reminding myself that the work that I have to do &#8212; the work that I&#8217;ve been doing until now, 1:30 in the morning, and the work that I&#8217;ll resume when I get back to my place tomorrow &#8212; is actually a blessing. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}