{"id":379694,"date":"2011-11-01T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/01\/when-life-sucks\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T17:44:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T17:44:00","slug":"when-life-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/01\/when-life-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"When Life Sucks&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/annahelizabeth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/When-Life-Sucks.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/annahelizabeth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/When-Life-Sucks-240x300.jpg\" width=\"159\" \/><\/a>A person who is lamenting the detachment and isolation of his son just said to me, &#8220;It&#8217;s okay.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ll never forget when I spoke those same words to one of my customers, in the early months after my son died.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s okay,&#8221; I&#8217;d say to people, who would usually say some variation of, &#8220;Yes, it&#8217;s going to be okay,&#8221; or &#8220;I know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But this one woman, she broke the mold. &#8220;No, it&#8217;s not okay,&#8221; she said to me.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ve tried to remember that ever since. <\/p>\n<p>Sometimes life sucks. And when it does, it&#8217;s not <em>okay<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>As such, I&#8217;m resurrecting <a href=\"http:\/\/annahelizabeth.comwhen-life-gives-you-lemons-cut-open-an-onion\/\">this post<\/a> from a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>We need to remember that, when life sucks, giving credence to the suckiness is a part of our healing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Soon&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A person who is lamenting the detachment and isolation of his son just said to me, &#8220;It&#8217;s okay.&#8221; I&#8217;ll never forget when I spoke those same words to one of my customers, in the early months after my son died. &#8220;It&#8217;s okay,&#8221; I&#8217;d say to people, who would usually say some variation of, &#8220;Yes, it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,14,135,54,158,69],"class_list":["post-379694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-grief","tag-healing","tag-if-life-gives-you-lemons","tag-loss-and-healing","tag-onions","tag-the-five-facets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/When-Life-Sucks.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}