{"id":673,"date":"2016-05-16T21:45:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T01:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/?p=673"},"modified":"2016-05-16T21:45:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T01:45:48","slug":"a-quick-check-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/?p=673","title":{"rendered":"A quick check in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/AEM.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-675\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/AEM.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"AEM\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/AEM.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/AEM.jpg?w=480&amp;ssl=1 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Soon after I started this blog, I had to check in with myself.\u00a0 I knew it was a bold step to be so public in sharing both stories from Maya\u2019s life, and also my process.\u00a0 I told myself that I would only post if in some way or another, sharing \u201cfed\u201d me.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t want to create any additional stress or anxiety.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been listening to this voice all along.<\/p>\n<p>I ran into a friend at the bus station yesterday.\u00a0 She let me know that she\u2019s been reading the blog and voiced some concern as it\u2019s been a while since I last posted.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the most time has lapsed since I started.\u00a0 I have written in my head a hundred different essays over the past few weeks.\u00a0 They include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A challenging Mother\u2019s Day<\/li>\n<li>Parallels between physical pain and grief<\/li>\n<li>Signs from Maya<\/li>\n<li>PTSD<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are more, but these are the stories that have been strongest for me recently.\u00a0 I imagine I\u2019ll get to share in more detail when the time is right.\u00a0 For now, I just wanted to touch base.\u00a0 I know that I\u2019m being held by you and I appreciate that.\u00a0 Thank you and sending love.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo from Mother&#8217;s Day 2005<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soon after I started this blog, I had to check in with myself.\u00a0 I knew it was a bold step to be so public in sharing both stories from Maya\u2019s life, and also my process.\u00a0 I told myself that I would only post if in some way or another, sharing \u201cfed\u201d me.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t want&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gifts-since"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p720L0-aR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":676,"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}