{"id":263,"date":"2013-12-30T02:29:25","date_gmt":"2013-12-29T18:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/?p=263"},"modified":"2013-12-30T02:31:05","modified_gmt":"2013-12-29T18:31:05","slug":"appreciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"Appreciation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So we just had an appreciation service in church to end of 2013. Honestly, 2013 felt like such a horrible year and I&#8217;m just waiting for the end of the festivities in early 2014 to end so that I can move on.<\/p>\n<p>There was a time for everyone to write little notes of appreciation to each other. I couldn&#8217;t write anything. I didn&#8217;t feel up to it. On top of that, I believe I was suffering from an anxiety attack then. Heart palpitations and all. I just wanted to hang back and fade away.<\/p>\n<p>I just read the notes that people wrote on my sheet. So many of it was for serving on the worship team. If only people knew how sometimes I feel obligated to serve. I feel like I need a break, but I can&#8217;t take one because there&#8217;s no one else left to do stuff.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m like that too much I guess. I go out of my way to do things. Sometimes I wonder if this is what causes me to feel dry. That I do so much for other people that I burn out.<\/p>\n<p>Selfish seems like such a negative word. But I feel I need to be self\u2013ish. I have lost all sense of it really. And though I seem to have strands of it coming back, it&#8217;s still not enough for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we just had an appreciation service in church to end of 2013. Honestly, 2013 felt like such a horrible year and I&#8217;m just waiting for the end of the festivities in early 2014 to end so that I can move on. There was a time for everyone to write little notes of appreciation to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/?p=263\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Appreciation<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38,3,39],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/appreciation.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263"}],"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=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}