{"id":321,"date":"2009-02-18T18:34:41","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T22:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/?p=321"},"modified":"2009-02-18T18:34:41","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T22:34:41","slug":"what-i-want-to-say-iswell-what-i-mean-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/what-i-want-to-say-iswell-what-i-mean-is\/","title":{"rendered":"What I want to say is&#8230;well, what I mean is&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I keep trying to start this entry-and I am stuck.\u00a0 In the past I have been able to write about my trips to see my mother- to tend to her-to get her from here to there-to ask the questions-to not know the questions; to not know the answers.\u00a0 To spend time with-to be alone. To let her be alone.\u00a0 This woman who so fiercely defended and demanded her independence is now so reliant on so many for her day to day.\u00a0 I hate it for her.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t get the words to flow just yet.<\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=217894238264870\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/what-i-want-to-say-iswell-what-i-mean-is\/\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"al2fb_send_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=217894238264870\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:send ref=\"AL2FB\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/what-i-want-to-say-iswell-what-i-mean-is\/\"><\/fb:send><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep trying to start this entry-and I am stuck.\u00a0 In the past I have been able to write about my trips to see my mother- to tend to her-to get her from here to there-to ask the questions-to not know the questions; to not know the answers.\u00a0 To spend time with-to be alone. To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}