{"id":10879,"date":"2016-11-24T10:07:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T18:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=10879"},"modified":"2016-11-24T10:07:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T18:07:42","slug":"obligatory-thanksgiving-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=10879","title":{"rendered":"Obligatory Thanksgiving post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is so much to be grateful for in life that it&#8217;s useless to try to make a list. Thanksgiving Day does require some sort of acknowledgement of gratitude before I get any mashed potatoes, so&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I am incredibly blessed in pretty much every way a person can be. Wonderful life partner and family, loving friends, a great job, a penchant for both laughter and deep thought, health, sarcasm, enough money to have everything I need (and not so much that I can get into trouble), and living in a gorgeous place where I am free to be who I am.<\/p>\n<p>Life isn&#8217;t perfect, nothing ever is, but as the late Leonard Cohen said &#8220;there&#8217;s a crack in everything, that&#8217;s how the light gets in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Happy Thanksgiving, my loves!<\/p>\n<p>PS<br \/>\nI feel like a really need to throw in something about red shoes, music, boozes, and books. You know, the stuff that pads the sometimes rough edges of life. There will always be bumps, but life has a multitude of compensations for them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is so much to be grateful for in life that it&#8217;s useless to try to make a list. Thanksgiving Day does require some sort of acknowledgement of gratitude before I get any mashed potatoes, so&#8230; I am incredibly blessed in pretty much every way a person can be. 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