{"id":661,"date":"2005-01-01T15:51:55","date_gmt":"2005-01-01T23:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/?p=661"},"modified":"2005-01-01T15:51:55","modified_gmt":"2005-01-01T23:51:55","slug":"let-go-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/2005\/01\/01\/let-go-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Let go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the stroke of midnight, after we hooted and hollered and blew our horns, after we exchanged &#8220;Happy New Year&#8221;s and &#8220;I love you&#8221;s with our families via cell phone, after we clinked glasses brimming with champagne, we each grabbed a balloon and went outside.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, we&#8217;d made lists of fears, anxieties and issues we wanted to let go of this year. We rolled each scrap of paper into a tiny scroll and tied them to the balloons.<\/p>\n<p>At the count of three, we released them. It was exhilarating and peaceful all at once. We stood in the middle of the street for a few minutes, watching the balloons disappear into the dark night sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the stroke of midnight, after we hooted and hollered and blew our horns, after we exchanged &#8220;Happy New Year&#8221;s and &#8220;I love you&#8221;s with our families via cell phone, after we clinked glasses brimming with champagne, we each grabbed a balloon and went outside. Earlier, we&#8217;d made lists of fears, anxieties and issues we [&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\/661"}],"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=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}