{"id":8,"date":"2015-10-11T05:50:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T05:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/2015\/10\/11\/2015-11-10-saying-goodbye-is-hard\/"},"modified":"2015-10-11T05:50:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T05:50:00","slug":"2015-11-10-saying-goodbye-is-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/2015\/10\/11\/2015-11-10-saying-goodbye-is-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Saying goodbye is hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sqs-html-content\" data-sqsp-text-block-content>\n<p>A horrible reality of an elongated move like this is that you see how amazing your friends are&#8230;then you have to leave them. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Between packing and lifting, places to stay and shoulders to cry on, invitations to dinner and bottles of beer; family and friends provided more support than I ever thought I needed. At the most amazing times ( read: when I felt lonely or overwhelmed) someone would text an invite or send a message. I learned to lean into people and share my worries and anxieties. I learned that when you do that, when you show your vulnerabilities, you learn about others&#8217; fears as well. You open up and find out that most people have had similar experiences, terrors and doubts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I missed Mike, I was scared I would hate Thailand, I was anxious about my career and how much I would miss my family. I don&#8217;t think that I overcame any of these fears, but I accepted that they were normal and acceptable and some things would not be in my control for a while.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so grateful for the cups of tea, glasses of wine, and long chats with people who helped me realize all that. \u00a0 I always want to remember that kindness, and be able to reciprocate it, or pay it forward to somebody else who needs it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px\">A horrible reality of an elongated move like this is that you see how amazing your friends are&#8230;then you have to leave them. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Between packing and lifting, places to stay and shoulders to cry on, invitations to dinner and bottles of beer; family and friends provided more support than I ever thought I needed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-move"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}