{"id":1061,"date":"2020-09-20T21:12:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T21:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2020-09-20T21:12:42","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T21:12:42","slug":"playing-catch-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/playing-catch-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing Catch (Up)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-73\" src=\"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_2433-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_2433-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_2433-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_2433-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_2433-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_2433-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_2433.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Thinking Out Loud&#8230;<\/h3>\n<p>It\u2019s been tough, hasn\u2019t it? \u00a0Chaos seems to reign. \u00a0I admit it, it\u2019s been difficult to keep my head above water, to keep my balance, to keep a sense of hope. \u00a0Yep, it has been tough.<\/p>\n<p>I haven\u2019t felt like writing because I didn\u2019t know what to say about it all. \u00a0Anything I can add seems paltry in the face of so much suffering and ill will.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, I do feel hopeful. \u00a0We\u2019ve each our own road to follow, our own challenges, successes and failures, loves and sorrows. \u00a0Today, after feeling overwhelmed, down cast and worried, I feel like getting on with it\u2014just setting all those worries aside, and getting on with it. \u00a0Whatever IT is.<\/p>\n<p>Time to catch up with myself, time to say \u201cI\u2019m still here\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s keep on keeping on.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking Out Loud&#8230; It\u2019s been tough, hasn\u2019t it? \u00a0Chaos seems to reign. \u00a0I admit it, it\u2019s been difficult to keep my head above water, to keep my balance, to keep a sense of hope. \u00a0Yep, it has been tough. I haven\u2019t felt like writing because I didn\u2019t know what to say about it all. \u00a0Anything &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/playing-catch-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Playing Catch (Up)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1068,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions\/1068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}