{"id":692,"date":"2013-04-15T10:08:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T17:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=692"},"modified":"2013-04-24T15:46:38","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T22:46:38","slug":"twenty-something-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=692","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-something Panic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>I got to thinking about the twenty-something panic. Our twenties are supposed to be this great time when we can still eat what we want without having to run a marathon the next day, when we can change career paths without a skeptical onlooker saying something pessimistic, and when we\u2019re figuring out our love lives.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s so much more to it. This is truly a time of panic. We feel like we have to figure everything out fast. If we aren\u2019t engaged by 27, like the rest of our friends, we feel inadequate. And I\u2019ll be honest: I\u2019m starting to panic. I\u2019m ready to turn 30, even though that\u2019s several years away! However, what we have to realize is that our twenties can be about getting our lives together. We don\u2019t have to know everything yet. I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll panic throughout my twenties, but knowing that I don\u2019t need to have everything figured out right away brings a sense of peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got to thinking about the twenty-something panic. Our twenties are supposed to be this great time when we can still eat what we want without having to run a marathon the next day, when we can change career paths &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=692\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":582,"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\/692"}],"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=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":702,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}