{"id":195,"date":"2008-02-12T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts-wp\/?p=195"},"modified":"2008-02-12T14:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T21:21:00","slug":"sketch-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2008\/02\/sketch-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketch 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally a day off!!!<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, I decided to take advantage of the wonderful weather here in So. Cal. and I drove up to Malibu to check out one of the beaches up there.&nbsp; It was in the mid-70s.&nbsp; I just sat on the beach, read, and listened to the ocean.&nbsp; Oh and called some friends in less friendlier climates&#8230;from the beach&#8230;to rub it in.<\/p>\n<p>In the evening, I met up with the &#8220;Cuddle Call&#8221; group at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masaofechopark.com\/\">Masa<\/a> in Echo Park.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a group of young adults doing some sort of ministry.&nbsp; A place where we can learn and build up each other.&nbsp; I&#8217;m glad to finally have something like this.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve really needed some place where I could find support.&nbsp; Even though it has pretty much come too late, but that&#8217;s a different story.<\/p>\n<p>Work is still incredibly busy and stressful.&nbsp; Compounding it all, I&#8217;m feeling pretty disconnected from God, faith, spirituality.&nbsp; It makes it difficult to come to work with passion for my projects.&nbsp; I feel defeated by my job and the largely only negative feedback I&#8217;ve been getting pretty much the entire time I&#8217;ve been working here.&nbsp; I know that should challenge me to make things better, but right now I just don&#8217;t feel like there is anything I can do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally a day off!!! Saturday, I decided to take advantage of the wonderful weather here in So. Cal. and I drove up to Malibu to check out one of the beaches up there.&nbsp; It was in the mid-70s.&nbsp; I just sat on the beach, read, and listened to the ocean.&nbsp; Oh and called some friends &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2008\/02\/sketch-6\/\">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":[8],"tags":[294,195,114,532,200,149,196],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-or-something-like-it","tag-beach","tag-faith","tag-friends","tag-life-or-something-like-it","tag-sketches","tag-vocation","tag-work","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\/195","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=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/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=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}