{"id":10602,"date":"2011-01-01T18:13:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T23:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=10602"},"modified":"2011-01-01T18:13:57","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T23:13:57","slug":"help-me-make-it-through-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=10602","title":{"rendered":"Help me make it through the day"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had friends from Puerto Rico, Brazil, and the neighborhood over today for New Year’s lucky food – black eyed peas with turkey tasso, cabbage, mashed sweet potatoes with a lucky dime hidden in them, garbanzos with dates and star anise, rice pilaf, cauliflower, and loads of sweets from sweet potato pie to homemade cookies sent home from last night’s party with us. It’s like we got up and went into this whir whir whir mode.<\/p>\n

I was speaking to a friend and neighbor who said that he has gotten used to the fact that he is lucky and I told him that I know I’m lucky and my dark times are when I think my luck might be running out (because how can this streak last, I sometimes shout inside my head!). He said it is music that helps him through the darkness. I spoke to another friend and neighbor who said that she’s hopeful love is in the air in 2011 and that love is all it takes to get by.<\/p>\n

I’m here to tell you what it takes to get by – a good friend who is near the phone, a good book that is engrossing and can transport you, and a new episode from The Louise Log<\/a>, finally posted today. Diversion is sometimes the best thing to quell the demons in your head or the living demons breathing down your back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had friends from Puerto Rico, Brazil, and the neighborhood over today for New Year’s lucky food – black eyed peas with turkey tasso, cabbage, mashed sweet potatoes with a lucky dime hidden in them, garbanzos with dates and star anise, rice pilaf, cauliflower, and loads of sweets from sweet potato pie to homemade cookies sent home from last night’s party with us. It’s like we got up and went into this whir whir whir… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-2L0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10603,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10602\/revisions\/10603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}