{"id":1588,"date":"2020-05-05T07:52:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T13:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2020-05-05T07:52:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T13:52:52","slug":"may-5-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/2020\/05\/05\/may-5-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"May 5, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Make a fist and release<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s2\">In the morning, I wake to find more pain. Today my hands join in the chorus of chaos in my gut. I remember the frustration, the denial, the hatred, all from the day before. The stress of being out of work, the fury of being helpless. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s2\">But today I try something new. I take a deep breath and clench my fists close. They are weak, and my fingers creak from the effort. I press all my fears and anger over being ill into my hands. And then I exhale and release them. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s2\">There is no cure for what I have. It is scary to think that my life is changing because of something I cannot control. It is frightening to think I will not be able to function like everyone else. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s2\">But I let it go. I breathe out. I repeat my mantra:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s2\">My body is not perfect, but it is mine. I will love it where it\u2019s at. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make a fist and release In the morning, I wake to find more pain. Today my hands join in the chorus of chaos in my gut. I remember the frustration, the denial, the hatred, all from the day before. The stress of being out of work, the fury of being&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[525],"tags":[552,526,527,551,12,528],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p27tjX-pC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1589,"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions\/1589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}