{"id":440,"date":"2016-10-08T08:57:37","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T08:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/?p=440"},"modified":"2016-10-08T08:58:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T08:58:11","slug":"reassurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/?p=440","title":{"rendered":"Knowing I Will Be OK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-441\" src=\"http:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/14519898_10153351819562168_7236653003601566033_n.jpg\" alt=\"14519898_10153351819562168_7236653003601566033_n\" width=\"325\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/14519898_10153351819562168_7236653003601566033_n.jpg 325w, https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/14519898_10153351819562168_7236653003601566033_n-247x300.jpg 247w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 325px) 85vw, 325px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have experienced\u00a0a LOT of internal confusion and debate over the past 3 years &amp; nine months as to how my future is going to pan out.<br \/>\nI know firsthand that life is incredibly\u00a0tenuous.<br \/>\nFor a long time I have felt uneasy and\u00a0scared as to what my future might\u00a0be like.<\/p>\n<p>But I have finally reached a\u00a0place.<br \/>\nTurned a new page.<br \/>\nA blank, clean page.<br \/>\nI have a freshly sharpened pencil.<br \/>\nI am about to begin writing a new chapter.<\/p>\n<p>It is actually rather exciting to be embarking on a different\u00a0journey.<br \/>\nIt has taken me a long while to bury the hopes and dreams from my past life.<br \/>\nI have had to work through the grief of the loss of all of those.<br \/>\nIt has not been easy but it has been <a href=\"https:\/\/rabbitsnest.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">a journey of healing and learning and discovery.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I now have the beginnings of new dreams and new ideas and new hopes&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<br \/>\nLife is awesome and it is going to be even more awesome.<br \/>\nI am happy.<br \/>\nThe darkness has lifted.<br \/>\nA new day is dawning.<br \/>\nI have absolutely no idea where it is going to take me but actually I don\u2019t really care.<br \/>\nI just know<br \/>\nI. Will. Be. Okay.<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-444\" src=\"http:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_0272-1024x664.jpg\" alt=\"img_0272\" width=\"840\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_0272.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_0272-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_0272-768x498.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have experienced\u00a0a LOT of internal confusion and debate over the past 3 years &amp; nine months as to how my future is going to pan out. I know firsthand that life is incredibly\u00a0tenuous. For a long time I have felt uneasy and\u00a0scared as to what my future might\u00a0be like. But I have finally reached &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/?p=440\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Knowing I Will Be OK&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,20,47,4,21,17,16,44,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}