{"id":180,"date":"2012-03-14T19:13:47","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T23:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/?p=180"},"modified":"2012-04-20T00:36:13","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T04:36:13","slug":"hiatus-unintended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":"Hiatus Unintended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>hiatus &#8211; an interruption in time or continuity<br \/>\nunintended &#8211; not expected to be such (in the future)<\/p>\n<p><!--Read on!-->Heed this, my testimony, you new parents out there: No matter how well-prepared you think you are, you are not.<\/p>\n<p>When Hubby and I completed training to become foster parents, I expected a lengthy adjustment period. Re-scheduling and new deals? Sure. A pause of our regular and extracurricular activities? Can do! We couldn&#8217;t predict what was to come, but we were ready to make adjustments.<\/p>\n<p>I did not expect it to take three months to get back to some kind of normal.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, we have settle down to a new normal with a 14 year old and a six year old. We&#8217;re holding onto that normal with all our might, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>At last, I return to my writing. I must get these swirling stories out of my head. I&#8217;ll get back to you with them real soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re holding onto that normal with all our might, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[82,165,81],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gess","tag-foster-parents","tag-gess","tag-hiatus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}