{"id":1351,"date":"2019-07-24T10:05:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T17:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2019-07-24T10:05:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T17:05:57","slug":"resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=1351","title":{"rendered":"Resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>I got to thinking about resilience. Society always says, &#8220;Kids are so resilient.&#8221; And maybe that is true. I couldn&#8217;t tell you either way. I hope it is true. But why don&#8217;t we say this about adults? Are adults not resilient? What if adults go through something horrific, do we, as society, not believe they&#8217;ll overcome it, too? Isn&#8217;t that cynical? Shouldn&#8217;t all of us be resilient? Or are adults too stuck in their ways to be resilient? Can we not change?<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking about this because I was wondering about my own resilience. I think I could be more resilient. I think I tend to stray from change and from anything that will make me feel the stillness of trauma. Not that most of us want either. So I am slowly learning how to be resilient, how to not let things or people bother me. I can let go. I can release those feelings and be resilient. I don&#8217;t need the negativity; I simply need the control. It just takes time and practice. And maybe it doesn&#8217;t for kids. I am so envious of that. But discovering more and more about myself is what will get me there. In time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got to thinking about resilience. Society always says, &#8220;Kids are so resilient.&#8221; And maybe that is true. I couldn&#8217;t tell you either way. I hope it is true. But why don&#8217;t we say this about adults? Are adults not &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=1351\">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\/1351"}],"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=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1352,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions\/1352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}