{"id":625,"date":"2005-12-09T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-09T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=625"},"modified":"2005-12-09T08:32:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-09T13:32:00","slug":"the-disappearing-sound-of-the-helicopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=625","title":{"rendered":"The Disappearing Sound Of The Helicopter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve officially hit the point in the holiday season where I feel like I just got dropped into the deepest, darkest jungles of &#8216;Nam and my only source of safety and rescue is thud-thud-thud soaring away from me.  I have a zillion things to do, about half a zillion more things I *want* to do, and then there&#8217;s that pesky thing called &#8220;work&#8221; that requires attendance &#038; time&#8230;..  I started to list everything here but it made me hyperventilate &#038; my chest started to tighten, and that&#8217;s not acceptable behavior in the dark jungle. <\/p>\n<p>One foot in front of the other, one step at a time, don&#8217;t sweat the small stuff, keep on keepin&#8217; on, keep on truckin&#8217;, keep hope alive, lord what a FRIEND we have in Jesus. That last one would occasionally be shouted out by the gay black man in men&#8217;s suits when I worked retail (men&#8217;s dress shirts &#038; ties) right out of college. Emmett, wherever you are, I am shouting it with the same energy. While running through the holiday jungle with an AK-47 strapped to my bathrobe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve officially hit the point in the holiday season where I feel like I just got dropped into the deepest, darkest jungles of &#8216;Nam and my only source of safety and rescue is thud-thud-thud soaring away from me. I have a zillion things to do, about half a zillion more things I *want* to do, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}