{"id":720,"date":"2006-03-02T00:20:23","date_gmt":"2006-03-02T08:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/?p=720"},"modified":"2006-03-02T00:20:23","modified_gmt":"2006-03-02T08:20:23","slug":"lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/02\/lost\/","title":{"rendered":"lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I forget, sometimes, the importance of reaching out to others. Especially these days, when so often I sit in my little corner-of-the-bedroom studio with my head down and my fingers on the keyboard for hours at a time.<\/p>\n<p>I forget that connecting with others nurtures my spirit. It feeds my soul.<\/p>\n<p>Lately, though, I&#8217;m being reminded. In both beautiful and painful ways. In lunch with a fellow designer, a phone call with a dear friend and a chain of emails.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I especially seek connection, as I heard the saddest news today and I was so busy working on a deadline that it didn&#8217;t hit me until now. A high school student I <a href=\"alert('He was in the youth group where I volunteer. We were not necessarily close, but still, I knew him.');\" title=\"footnote\">know<\/a> was killed yesterday. Fatally shot by a gang member. He was 15 years old. <i>Fifteen years young.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Are there even words to follow that? If there are, I can&#8217;t find them right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I forget, sometimes, the importance of reaching out to others. Especially these days, when so often I sit in my little corner-of-the-bedroom studio with my head down and my fingers on the keyboard for hours at a time. I forget that connecting with others nurtures my spirit. It feeds my soul. Lately, though, I&#8217;m being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720"}],"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=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}