{"id":149,"date":"2012-02-10T15:57:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T23:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=149"},"modified":"2012-02-10T15:57:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T23:57:16","slug":"to-forgive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"To Forgive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>I got to thinking about forgiveness. I will be the first one to admit that I\u2019m not too fond of that. I can barely say the word. When someone acts without loyalty, what is there to do? You can either forgive or you can forget. I usually choose the latter. And I\u2019m not saying that\u2019s a good quality. Forgiveness heals all wounds. Forgiveness makes you feel better. Isn\u2019t that what life is all about?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But something has come to my attention as of late. I have learned that you can forget things easily. Moving things to the back of the mind is a simple task. It\u2019s forgiveness that takes courage. It\u2019s forgiveness that takes strength. And I want to be a strong, courageous person. I must forgive. We are all human; mistakes are inevitable. Feeling hurt is part of life. I never really wanted to understand that. \u00a0But I must. I must allow forgiveness in my heart so I can feel better. I don\u2019t want to live my life bitter. Instead, I will be strong and courageous. I will be the person I always knew I could be. And I can\u2019t ask for anything more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got to thinking about forgiveness. I will be the first one to admit that I\u2019m not too fond of that. I can barely say the word. When someone acts without loyalty, what is there to do? You can either &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=149\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115,"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\/149"}],"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=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}