{"id":484,"date":"2010-02-11T02:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T02:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=484"},"modified":"2010-02-11T02:51:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T02:51:00","slug":"getting-over-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"Getting Over It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/S3NxtGTwqeI\/AAAAAAAAGV8\/dafmutg9BpQ\/s1600-h\/DSC06876.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/S3NxtGTwqeI\/AAAAAAAAGV8\/dafmutg9BpQ\/s320\/DSC06876.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436814194767866338\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>So I had to spend most of the day trying to shake off the story of &#8216;Tess&#8217; and her demise.  I was succeeding by reminding myself that the author was sending a message, a good message through this story&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Looking for comfort I told my husband about the books end.  I expressed how it had really upset me.  He smiled wrapped me in his arms and said &#8216;Come here and let me comfort you over a person who didn&#8217;t even exist.&#8217;  Oh my temper flared and I wanted to slap him&#8230; but the flash of anger was cooled by his good natured laugh at my expense and I left the room instead.<\/p>\n<p>I need a more cheerful classic novel now, to sooth my readers heart.<\/p>\n<p>TTFN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I had to spend most of the day trying to shake off the story of &#8216;Tess&#8217; and her demise. I was succeeding by reminding myself that the author was sending a message, a good message through this story&#8230; Looking for comfort I told my husband about the books end. I expressed how it had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,26,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}