{"id":518,"date":"2006-10-23T20:04:59","date_gmt":"2006-10-24T01:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/wp\/?p=518"},"modified":"2006-10-23T20:04:59","modified_gmt":"2006-10-24T01:04:59","slug":"lesson-from-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/2006\/10\/23\/lesson-from-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson from Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve picked up Simple Abundance again&#8230;  and I started with the passage marked October 18 (even though it is indeed the 20th).  The article can be summed up in one statement:  Life is precious, don&#8217;t waste it.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah tells the story of 7 women who died in a plane crash on their way home.  Sarah says, &#8220;What were their last thoughts?  It certainly wasn&#8217;t the deal made or lost or how hassled their day had been.  Surely their last thoughts were Real.&#8221;  No kidding.<\/p>\n<p>I got to thinking, dangerous, i know.  But if this were my last moments on Earth, and I knew it&#8230;  Would I be sitting here surfing the internet?  or watching TV?  or would i be snuggling one last time with my babies?  I think that answer is pretty crystal clear&#8230;  but then I thought, what would regret?  I would regret the harsh words spoken to my children throughout the day.  I would regret spending so much time on the internet each day.  How would my babies remember me??  would they remember the times I played tickle chase, and took them to the park?  or would they remember mom as the back of my head as I geeked away?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got to get my life into focus&#8230;.\u00a0 So since the kids are in bed (notice i didn&#8217;t say sleeping), and the ball game is recording&#8230;\u00a0 time to catch up on some blogging, and finish up my design work so that I can totally attempt to turn off the computer tommorrow afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve picked up Simple Abundance again&#8230; and I started with the passage marked October 18 (even though it is indeed the 20th). The article can be summed up in one &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simple-abundance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}