{"id":1881,"date":"2009-02-25T18:05:37","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T01:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1881"},"modified":"2009-02-25T18:05:37","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T01:05:37","slug":"lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1881","title":{"rendered":"Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I was watching the snow fall like powdered sugar this morning, I had just one thought in mind:<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEN IS THIS FREAKING WINTER GOING TO END?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m becoming like <a title=\"Edda the Puss\" href=\"http:\/\/eddapuss.blogspot.com\">Edda the Puss<\/a> when it comes to snow.\u00c2? I don&#8217;t like it!!!!\u00c2? Make it go away!!!!<\/p>\n<p>So today is Ash Wednesday which is the first day of Lent.\u00c2? (Easter is around Tax Day again.\u00c2? Yes, I&#8217;m positively happy that Jesus paid my Death Tax for me.)\u00c2? It&#8217;s a meatless day for me which is a royal pain because I&#8217;m hellishly depressed and not feeling like eating&#8230; and the only things I have the house that fit this have meat in them.\u00c2? Crap!\u00c2? I&#8217;m also giving up swearing which means 4-lettered words mostly.\u00c2? (I&#8217;m keeping the precursors though.)<\/p>\n<p>I should theoretically go to church tonight.\u00c2? Then again, I should do a lot of things.\u00c2? For example, I should have gone to work today; but called in sick after crying for a good two hours at the thought of having to go deal with people.\u00c2? The thought of going to church tonight is making me similarly upset.\u00c2? Not that I hate everyone &#8212; I&#8217;m just having &#8220;one of those <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">days<\/span> weeks&#8221;.\u00c2? I&#8217;m grateful to have a boss who understands but I still feel guilty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was watching the snow fall like powdered sugar this morning, I had just one thought in mind: WHEN IS THIS FREAKING WINTER GOING TO END?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? I&#8217;m becoming like Edda the Puss when it comes to snow.\u00c2? I don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1881\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[1,2,25,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-faith","category-health","category-life-in-big-sky-country"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s38xoO-lent","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1882,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions\/1882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}