{"id":4483,"date":"2009-07-23T15:20:28","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T20:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=4483"},"modified":"2009-07-23T15:20:28","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T20:20:28","slug":"place-the-oxygen-mask-over-your-head-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=4483","title":{"rendered":"Place the oxygen mask over your head first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to yoga today because of this main reason &#8211; my back is killing me. And it&#8217;s killing me from sitting here at my desk and running back and forth to the hospital, but what was giving was my time to do yoga and since I believe my mother is the one who is going through the most discomfort, I&#8217;ve not been attending to my own needs. But I had to stop and take myself to yoga, where I dedicated my practice to her getting better.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s struggling right now with having just been taken off the vent &#8211; her anxiety has flared up, she has had trouble swallowing, and they are threatening to put it back in but I&#8217;m asking the universe to help her through the rough patch and to keep the vent off.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to juggle caring for a loved one and continuing to do your demanding job, and pay attention to your loved ones, and on top of all that take care of yourself. But you have to &#8211; the cosmos throw down these juggling balls and you have to just start dancing or else. And you can&#8217;t drop the you ball either &#8211; because that is not a good short-term plan and it has long-term consequences as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to yoga today because of this main reason &#8211; my back is killing me. And it&#8217;s killing me from sitting here at my desk and running back and forth to the hospital, but what was giving was my time to do yoga and since I believe my mother is the one who is going through the most discomfort, I&#8217;ve not been attending to my own needs. But I had to stop and take&hellip; <\/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-4483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-1aj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483","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=4483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4484,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483\/revisions\/4484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}