{"id":343,"date":"2014-01-12T23:20:35","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T15:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/?p=343"},"modified":"2014-01-12T23:20:35","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T15:20:35","slug":"hug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/?p=343","title":{"rendered":"Hug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing what a hug can do. I wanted us to try to be more intimate tonight but when she hugged I almost broke down. (Later when she hugged me again, I actually did cry.)<\/p>\n<p>ML said that hugs help develop oxytocin, the bonding hormone. Perhaps I felt so alone through all that has been going on that, sometimes I just need a hug. <\/p>\n<p>A hug lets you know you are not alone. It tells you that someone is willing to hold you close despite what you feel and what you fear. <\/p>\n<p>A hug is just a simple gesture that costs so little but can mean so much. It conveys security, comfort, and love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing what a hug can do. I wanted us to try to be more intimate tonight but when she hugged I almost broke down. (Later when she hugged me again, I actually did cry.) ML said that hugs help develop oxytocin, the bonding hormone. Perhaps I felt so alone through all that has been &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/?p=343\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hug<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[57],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20140112-232027.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343"}],"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=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}