{"id":183,"date":"2007-11-24T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-24T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts-wp\/?p=183"},"modified":"2007-11-24T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-24T08:00:00","slug":"on-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2007\/11\/on-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"on thanksgiving&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I realized that this was first thanksgiving I&#8217;ve ever had without spending some time with my family.&nbsp; It&#8217;s kinda weird how much its got me down, since holidays at home are always kinda stressful.&nbsp; It is a weird dynamic, even though they often get on my nerves, I would give pretty much anything to have been home this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m struggling a lot right now.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not adjusting as quickly (or easily) as I thought I would.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not doing my job as well as I thought I would.&nbsp; I&#8217;m doubting if its really the right fit for me.&nbsp; Which makes me doubt whether or not the vocation I&#8217;ve been journeying towards is really where I should be going.&nbsp; I miss Portland.&nbsp; I miss the rain and grey skies.<\/p>\n<p>But yet, I do not doubt that Los Angeles is where I am supposed to be right now.&nbsp; I can&#8217;t completely explain it and it often doesn&#8217;t make a lot of sense to me.&nbsp; Things aren&#8217;t all gloom here either.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve got a couple of old friends that live down here that I get to hang out with once and awhile (though not enough).&nbsp; I&#8217;ve also got a new close friend that I&#8217;ve met since being here.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve found a really good church (in Beverly Hills of all places) to be a part of.&nbsp; These are some of the things I&#8217;m thankful for this weekend.&nbsp; I&#8217;m also thankful for my friends in New York, Portland and Eugene&#8230;who&#8217;ve listened to my whining over instant messaging chats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realized that this was first thanksgiving I&#8217;ve ever had without spending some time with my family.&nbsp; It&#8217;s kinda weird how much its got me down, since holidays at home are always kinda stressful.&nbsp; It is a weird dynamic, even though they often get on my nerves, I would give pretty much anything to have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2007\/11\/on-thanksgiving\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[217,532,81,242,149],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discernment","category-life-or-something-like-it","tag-family","tag-life-or-something-like-it","tag-los-angeles","tag-s","tag-vocation","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/upload\/\/app_1_220086724709892_1567717122.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}