{"id":45670,"date":"2012-08-08T18:41:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T02:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=45670"},"modified":"2012-08-08T18:44:01","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T02:44:01","slug":"gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=45670","title":{"rendered":"Gratitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My therapist asked me Monday night why I didn&#8217;t express what I felt. Why did I minimize my gratitude? &#8220;I didn&#8217;t want to get overwhelmed by emotion,&#8221; I said. &#8220;It&#8217;s not worked out well for me to show too much gratitude. People expect too much in return. They feel like you owe them. I expressed gratitude as a little boy and always got moved on. I learned to hide my feelings. Stiff upper lip. If I cracked open a bit, I&#8217;m not sure what would come out. It might overwhelm me. It might not be appropriate to the situation. I prefer to stay in control. To not slop over. Let me do my slopping on my blog where I can edit things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>People wanted more inspiration from my talks. I only wanted to confess and to share a few steps that have worked for me. Can Lurid Luke inspire or would that violate the terms of his probation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My therapist asked me Monday night why I didn&#8217;t express what I felt. Why did I minimize my gratitude? &#8220;I didn&#8217;t want to get overwhelmed by emotion,&#8221; I said. &#8220;It&#8217;s not worked out well for me to show too much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=45670\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45672,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45670\/revisions\/45672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}