{"id":319,"date":"2016-12-02T10:31:52","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T20:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/?p=319"},"modified":"2016-12-02T10:31:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T20:31:52","slug":"divorce-and-birthdaysanniversaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/02\/divorce-and-birthdaysanniversaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Divorce and Birthdays\/Anniversaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December has always been a difficult time for me, moreso now post divorce. Today (12\/2) is my ex-wife&#8217;s birthday. It&#8217;s weird thinking that in my head. That it is a date that in some ways it&#8217;s better if I forget it.<\/p>\n<p>I can only hope that she&#8217;s found happiness where she is now with her new boyfriend. Me, I can&#8217;t say that I&#8217;ve found happiness but I know the direction I have to work towards and that&#8217;s something at least. My family never really celebrated the holidays much. \u00a0Perhaps because i&#8217;m part Vietnamese and the holidays were mostly about church and simple meals with family, not about the presents etc.<\/p>\n<p>Around this time last year my ex and I had our worst fight and the decision that divorce was the only option more or less agreed upon. If I had a Christmas wish it&#8217;s that this time next year I won&#8217;t remember as much. It seems a bit cruel to think it, but I know each day I drive memories further down so that I can take those painful steps forward and away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December has always been a difficult time for me, moreso now post divorce. Today (12\/2) is my ex-wife&#8217;s birthday. It&#8217;s weird thinking that in my head. That it is a date that in some ways it&#8217;s better if I forget it. I can only hope that she&#8217;s found happiness where she is now with her &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/02\/divorce-and-birthdaysanniversaries\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Divorce and Birthdays\/Anniversaries&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,2,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-slice","category-depression","category-divorce"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PG4O-59","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}