{"id":14570,"date":"2018-01-31T09:57:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T16:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=14570"},"modified":"2018-01-31T10:01:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T17:01:57","slug":"navigating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/navigating\/","title":{"rendered":"Navigating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_20180131_095915.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14574\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_20180131_095915-1024x540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_20180131_095915-1024x540.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_20180131_095915-300x158.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_20180131_095915-768x405.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The report card for Mark&#8217;s first semester came in the mail the other day, a reminder that I have had around 100 days on my own. (Mark is thriving in public school.)<\/p>\n<p>How is it going at home?<\/p>\n<p>I still hate the goodbyes every morning with my high school kids and Mark. I don&#8217;t think this will change. I love the quiet, and rarely listen to music or turn on the TV. But music and movies help when I get lonely.<\/p>\n<p>I have so much to do, but enjoy not being so pressed for time. I could spend all day working on house projects if I chose to. There are always Relief Society dilemmas and demands. I have a stack of books I am reading, music I should play, fabric I am stitching, and goals I am working on. Some days I wonder how I home schooled, then I remember that I could do it because we needed to do it. It&#8217;s like anyone&#8217;s life. You do what you feel you need to do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">House work and even service in Relief Society weren&#8217;t enough during my transition to being alone. Writing was what got me through the first semester. After some time off from writing, I think I need to get back to it. The old restlessness is back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The report card for Mark&#8217;s first semester came in the mail the other day, a reminder that I have had around 100 days on my own. (Mark is thriving in public school.) How is it going at home? I still hate the goodbyes every morning with my high school kids and Mark. I don&#8217;t think &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/navigating\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Navigating<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14570"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14575,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14570\/revisions\/14575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}