{"id":786,"date":"2010-04-18T10:45:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T09:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/?p=786"},"modified":"2010-04-18T10:45:52","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T09:45:52","slug":"perspective-takes-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/?p=786","title":{"rendered":"perspective takes off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tThis morning, I passed by a family taking a little boy out for a walk.  He looked like he is about 4 years old.  And they were all struggling to help him navigate with his crutches.  He didn\u0092t have a cast on.  Those crutches appeared to be, sadly, a way of life for him.<\/p>\n<p>\tThat second that I drove past made me realize: the possibility of a trip to buy a house being postponed, of my moving timetable being threatened&#8230; it\u0092s all just a nuisance.  A bother.  A pain.  But manageable. And temporary.  And for the first time since the volcano started stopping air travel in to, out of, and around Europe, I realized it is ok.  I realized there\u0092s a lot I have to be really, really thankful for.  And the inconveniences in life are just that.  Inconvenient.<\/p>\n<p>\tThen, while I was standing outside soaking in my newfound perspective, I heard a plane overhead.  A jet plane.  I scanned the skies, desperate to see it, but couldn\u0092t.  And in that split second, my newfound perspective vanished.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I passed by a family taking a little boy out for a walk. He looked like he is about 4 years old. And they were all struggling to help him navigate with his crutches. He didn\u0092t have a cast on. Those crutches appeared to be, sadly, a way of life for him. That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}