{"id":565,"date":"2004-01-01T14:20:53","date_gmt":"2004-01-01T19:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=565"},"modified":"2004-01-01T14:20:53","modified_gmt":"2004-01-01T19:20:53","slug":"new-years-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=565","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s Resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year again!  To keep me somewhat accountable, I&#8217;ve decided to list some of my New Year&#8217;s resolutions.<\/p>\n<p>1.) <b>Develop healthier living habits.<\/b>  Eat better.  Get more exercise.  Actually see a doctor about an illness before it gets to the point of near-hospitalization.  (This will be easier as we&#8217;ll have decent health insurance.)  Pray more.  Don&#8217;t stress over things.<\/p>\n<p>2.) <b>Get my driver&#8217;s license before I hit the BIG 2-4.<\/b>  (Translation: get my license before May 19th.)  I&#8217;m so close and if I can get some more practice in during the next 3 weeks, I can get my Minnesota license.<\/p>\n<p>3.) <b>Accept that I cannot change everything.<\/b>  Part of my stress problems have to do with my doggone insistence that I can change things&#8230; when in reality, I can&#8217;t change everything about a situation.  I need to accept that some things are problematic and can&#8217;t be fixed.<\/p>\n<p>4.) <b>Not stress about money.<\/b>  Jon is making more money this year and we can meet our bills.  I need to chill and remember that there has never been a time when the Lord hasn&#8217;t provided daily bread &#8212; that is, exactly what we need &#8212; and He will never stop providing for us.<\/p>\n<p>5.) <b>Tame my gremlin not to eat my books, especially the ones that blaspheme her name.<\/b>  She likes to chew on <i>Njal&#8217;s Saga<\/i>.  Enough said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year again! To keep me somewhat accountable, I&#8217;ve decided to list some of my New Year&#8217;s resolutions. 1.) Develop healthier living habits. Eat better. Get more exercise. Actually see a doctor about an illness before it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=565\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-97","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","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=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}