{"id":605,"date":"2004-06-16T17:22:03","date_gmt":"2004-06-17T01:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/?p=605"},"modified":"2004-06-16T17:22:03","modified_gmt":"2004-06-17T01:22:03","slug":"shifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/2004\/06\/16\/shifting\/","title":{"rendered":"Shifting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These days feel like a slow motion chess match: Black and white pieces gliding across the board. Sidra going away to college. Tonia moving up north. Michelle leaving Columbia. Kris jumping coasts. <!-- Not to mention Marcia's big move to Hawaii, Pat's departure from Youth Group and all the changes at the office.-->  It&#8217;s hard to keep track of everyone going everywhere and, when I do try to, I just get <a href=\"alert('AND happy and excited and worried and grateful and thrilled...');\" title=\"footnote\">sad<\/a>. I&#8217;m going to miss them so much.<\/p>\n<p>But this is nothing new. Many of my friends already live in different time zones. My family is already oceans and continents away. I just wish somebody had told me that &#8220;growing up&#8221; sometimes also means &#8220;going away.&#8221; I would have prepared myself for the sadness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days feel like a slow motion chess match: Black and white pieces gliding across the board. Sidra going away to college. Tonia moving up north. Michelle leaving Columbia. Kris jumping coasts. It&#8217;s hard to keep track of everyone going everywhere and, when I do try to, I just get sad. I&#8217;m going to miss [&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":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}