{"id":339,"date":"2012-05-26T15:29:52","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T22:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=339"},"modified":"2012-05-26T15:29:52","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T22:29:52","slug":"a-letter-to-the-lonely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=339","title":{"rendered":"A letter to the lonely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>I got to thinking about loneliness. How do we fathom life without company? How do we get through the day without having a meaningful conversation with those we love? How can we shake this lonely feeling? I\u2019m not sure there\u2019s a way to get rid of loneliness. I believe loneliness cannot be cured; however, it can be altered. We can alter the way we feel. We can fill the gaps of time with things we love: reading, writing, watching television, exercising. Though we cannot cure our loneliness, we can make sure to fill our time wisely, to not dwell on those things we cannot have in that moment. For time will give us what we want. We must be patient with our loneliness, and realize that it will slowly subside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got to thinking about loneliness. How do we fathom life without company? How do we get through the day without having a meaningful conversation with those we love? How can we shake this lonely feeling? I\u2019m not sure there\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=339\">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\/339"}],"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=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/340"}],"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=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}