{"id":8,"date":"2016-08-07T08:56:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T18:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/?p=8"},"modified":"2016-09-11T16:00:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T02:00:06","slug":"the-road-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/07\/the-road-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"The Road Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I genuinely wish this blog were being created for more positive reasons than the failure of my marriage. What&#8217;s done is done however and I realize the only time I&#8217;m ever OK with things is when I can de-focus from my pain and be of help to someone or something. So that&#8217;s where I greet you today.<\/p>\n<p>In the past I had been about sharing everything that made me a geek. My love of technology, photography, anime\/cosplay, a lot of that has taken a back seat. \u00a0In Oct 2015 I found myself facing the <del>distinct possibility<\/del>\u00a0reality my marriage was crumbling. \u00a0By Dec it was confirmed that my wife didn&#8217;t want to be together. \u00a0By April 2016 it was finalized.<\/p>\n<p>The process was painful but along the way I began to reach out, began CBT therapy, began art therapy and started to reach out to various online communities. In trying to set my life back to some sense of focus and purpose I realized that maybe, just maybe if I could share my experiences with divorce and depression, maybe someone else out there would understand they aren&#8217;t alone and that there&#8217;s people struggling and living with depression\/anxiety and other mental health issues.<\/p>\n<p>So for better or worse, if you&#8217;re following this blog, welcome to my road.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Vraxx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I genuinely wish this blog were being created for more positive reasons than the failure of my marriage. What&#8217;s done is done however and I realize the only time I&#8217;m ever OK with things is when I can de-focus from my pain and be of help to someone or something. So that&#8217;s where I greet &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/07\/the-road-ahead\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Road Ahead&#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":true,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-depression"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PG4O-8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","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=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}