{"id":80,"date":"2015-02-09T17:25:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T17:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solosurvior.com\/?p=80"},"modified":"2015-02-09T17:25:50","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T17:25:50","slug":"stuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solosurvior.com\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"Stuck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en-AU\">Some days I feel like a rodent on the hamster wheel &#8211; moving as fast as I can but stuck in one place, going nowhere. Simply going through the motions of life.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-AU\">It&#8217;s like I&#8217;m on auto-pilot &#8211; get up, shower, go to work, come home, prepare tomorrow&#8217;s food, try to sleep, get up and do it all over again day after day. Mind-numbing sameness.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-AU\">The words of a song haunt me:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-AU\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-81\" src=\"http:\/\/solosurvior.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/song.jpg\" alt=\"song\" width=\"236\" height=\"195\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-AU\">It can all seem so pointless and futile but something within me fights on, won&#8217;t let me give up. Seemingly out of the blue, in a momentary lapse from the mundane,\u00a0I\u00a0will suddenly notice a sunrise or smell a flower or hear the birds singing; I will hear a child laugh, feel the warmth of the sun on my face and something deep inside of me changes. Just for a moment things are not quite so bleak and I catch my breath for the next wave, the next turn of the wheel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some days I feel like a rodent on the hamster wheel &#8211; moving as fast as I can but stuck in one place, going nowhere. Simply going through the motions of life. It&#8217;s like I&#8217;m on auto-pilot &#8211; get up,&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/solosurvior.com\/?p=80\">Read more<\/a><\/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-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solosurvior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solosurvior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solosurvior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solosurvior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solosurvior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/solosurvior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/solosurvior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solosurvior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solosurvior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solosurvior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}