{"id":191,"date":"2013-12-25T22:36:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T14:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/?p=191"},"modified":"2013-12-26T08:48:44","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T00:48:44","slug":"empty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"Empty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How does a car run when its fuel tank is on empty?<\/p>\n<p>Lately, emotions run wild and anger flares cause chaotic explosions. I am running on empty. And my frustrations and her expectations of me still drain me. And then because I can not meet her expectations, she gets drained.<\/p>\n<p>How do people navigate the minefield that is a marriage?<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s as though there is no win-win situation that can be achieved when a person is down.<\/p>\n<p>I have fallen and the very support structure that is suppose to be in place is crushing me.<\/p>\n<p>We both need to recharge ourselves. We need space. I really don&#8217;t like the sound of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does a car run when its fuel tank is on empty? Lately, emotions run wild and anger flares cause chaotic explosions. I am running on empty. And my frustrations and her expectations of me still drain me. And then because I can not meet her expectations, she gets drained. How do people navigate the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/?p=191\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Empty<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38,5,39],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Empty.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}