{"id":55,"date":"2008-05-06T09:49:02","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T09:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joesuttle.com\/blog\/?p=55"},"modified":"2008-05-06T09:49:02","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T09:49:02","slug":"a-few-missing-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/blog\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"A Few Missing Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No way to remember everything that has happened since my last notes on Friday. Seem to have gotten very busy, and doing a lot of running around. That&#8217;s how life is, and we have to remember that (okay, I have to remember) it is not other people&#8217;s fault. It&#8217;s me that does not start off right. Something crosses my mind that needs doing, and that&#8217;s the direction I head.<\/p>\n<p>Every day, we make decisions about what we will or won&#8217;t do. We can try to blame someone else, but look at it carefully. Were you put in chains and dragged somewhere? Or were you beaten and locked in a room? Kinda doubt it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s what we do and what we are &#8211; sometimes, we need to tune out the &#8220;squeaking wheel&#8221; and tune in on what we need.<\/p>\n<p>Finally finished James, and found two things at the end of chapter five &#8211; &#8220;prayer and praise&#8221;. Now, I know that could be the subject for a message from some pastor, but James simply says &#8220;Got a problem? Pray about it! Are you happy? Sing songs of praise&#8221;. That&#8217;s the way to start a day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No way to remember everything that has happened since my last notes on Friday. Seem to have gotten very busy, and doing a lot of running around. That&#8217;s how life is, and we have to remember that (okay, I have&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/blog\/?p=55\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joesuttle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}