{"id":2055,"date":"2009-03-15T07:56:45","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T13:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2055"},"modified":"2009-03-15T07:56:45","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T13:56:45","slug":"62-and-still-worried-about-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2055","title":{"rendered":"62 And Still Worried About High School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Wild Moon<\/p>\n<p>Leaving for St. Paul in a few minutes.\u00a0 Managed to work myself into an anxious state.\u00a0 Wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>The day itself has glorious possibilities, bright and warming.<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;m experiencing falls under the category of pre-tramautic stress syndrome; that is, stress caused by anticipation of an unlikely, but possible phenomenon.\u00a0 Last night I wrote that I gave up wanting more speaking opportunities and that the work is its own reward.\u00a0 True enough as far it goes, but I also want to be liked and know that my prickly, combative personality does not lend itself to the warm fuzzies of human interaction.\u00a0 God, here I am, 62 and still worried about high school.<\/p>\n<p>At my best I know and accept the path and the person I have become, but just before a public event, sometimes, like right now, I&#8217;m not at my best.\u00a0 Anyhow, it helps to write it down, say it out loud.\u00a0 Thanks for listening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Wild Moon Leaving for St. Paul in a few minutes.\u00a0 Managed to work myself into an anxious state.\u00a0 Wonderful. The day itself has glorious possibilities, bright and warming. What I&#8217;m experiencing falls under the category of pre-tramautic stress syndrome; that is, stress caused by anticipation of an unlikely, but possible phenomenon.\u00a0 Last night &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2055\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">62 And Still Worried About High School<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[38,401],"class_list":["post-2055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith-and-spirituality","tag-anxiety","tag-preaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2057,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055\/revisions\/2057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}