{"id":405,"date":"2012-07-21T13:19:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T20:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=405"},"modified":"2012-07-21T13:19:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-21T20:19:24","slug":"endings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=405","title":{"rendered":"Endings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>I got to thinking about endings. You\u2019ve all heard the saying: when one chapter closes, another one begins. We must finish one chapter to start another. Sometimes, though, we don\u2019t want to close a chapter to begin the new one. I\u2019ve had wonderful experiences in my life that I didn\u2019t ever want to end. It was heartbreaking moving on, but somehow, I made it through. Then there are those experiences we all wish would end. And fast. We want to begin anew. But what I\u2019ve realized recently is that we cannot rush things. Time is the same for good and bad experiences. We must learn from our bad experiences and savor deeply our good experiences. After all, there\u2019s always going to be another spectacular chapter waiting for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got to thinking about endings. You\u2019ve all heard the saying: when one chapter closes, another one begins. We must finish one chapter to start another. Sometimes, though, we don\u2019t want to close a chapter to begin the new one. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=405\">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\/405"}],"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=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/406"}],"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=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}