{"id":1212,"date":"2017-02-01T10:10:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T18:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2017-02-01T10:10:02","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T18:10:02","slug":"anticipation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=1212","title":{"rendered":"Anticipation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>I got to thinking about anticipation. We have a vacation planned and just cannot wait one second longer for it to begin. We&#8217;re excited for [insert] and just cannot stand the suspense. And it&#8217;s an amazing feeling to be excited about something. It makes the clouds seem to slip away just a bit, as you&#8217;re just too excited! But&#8230; What if anticipation is better than life itself? Hear me out.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I worry that my excitement for events, people, places is greater than the actual day(s) I&#8217;m supposed to be excited about. Is that normal? Am I doing something wrong? Do I let such an immense anticipation take over and forgot to actually enjoy whatever I&#8217;ve been looking forward to? Conversely, I would argue that maybe that&#8217;s okay. Maybe it&#8217;s good to anticipate things and that anticipation be better than the actual &#8220;thing.&#8221; We need to look forward to the future. Sometimes this helps us get through a troubling present, a tough day at work, or an obstacle we&#8217;re going through. Maybe we can enjoy the present with this anticipation, this giddy excitement. Do you think so?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got to thinking about anticipation. We have a vacation planned and just cannot wait one second longer for it to begin. We&#8217;re excited for [insert] and just cannot stand the suspense. And it&#8217;s an amazing feeling to be excited &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=1212\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1213,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions\/1213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}