{"id":495,"date":"2012-09-23T16:38:42","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T23:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=495"},"modified":"2012-09-23T16:38:42","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T23:38:42","slug":"changing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=495","title":{"rendered":"Changing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got to thinking about changing. People change. All the time. Third Eye Blind, in \u201cNever let you go\u201d put it rather eloquently: \u201cYou say that I\u2019ve changed; well maybe I did. But even if I changed, what\u2019s wrong with it?\u201d Sometimes we are forced to change because of circumstances. Sometimes we merely grow up and find ourselves. And sometimes we realize that who we once were won\u2019t survive the grueling adult world. And you know what? All of those are okay. Changing doesn\u2019t have to be a negative thing. Change is simply a natural part of growing up. After all, you wouldn\u2019t want to be who you were as a teenager forever, would you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got to thinking about changing. People change. All the time. Third Eye Blind, in \u201cNever let you go\u201d put it rather eloquently: \u201cYou say that I\u2019ve changed; well maybe I did. But even if I changed, what\u2019s wrong with … Continue reading →<\/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\/495"}],"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=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/496"}],"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=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}