{"id":359,"date":"2013-07-16T13:08:12","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T20:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/wordpress\/?p=359"},"modified":"2013-07-16T16:25:55","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T23:25:55","slug":"note-to-self-breathing-is-mandatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=359","title":{"rendered":"Note To Self: Breathing Is Mandatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still alive but I&#8217;m barely breathing<br \/>\nJust praying to a God that I don&#8217;t believe in<br \/>\n&#8211;the Script<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The barely breathing is my own damn fault, but it&#8217;s kind of a flawed design in my opinion. It&#8217;s easy enough to breath IN, but nothing really prompts you to breath back out again.<\/p>\n<p>It makes for a cranky day when I forget. Just ask the people I work with.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Actually, don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still alive but I&#8217;m barely breathing Just praying to a God that I don&#8217;t believe in &#8211;the Script &nbsp; The barely breathing is my own damn fault, but it&#8217;s kind of a flawed design in my opinion. It&#8217;s easy enough to breath IN, but nothing really prompts you to breath back out again. It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=359\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Note To Self: Breathing Is Mandatory<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lr3R-5N","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6521,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=6521","url_meta":{"origin":359,"position":0},"title":"Catching my breath","author":"Michelle","date":"July 5, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Sometimes I just have to take a few minutes to sort of catch my breath and figure out where I am with everything and, you know, calm the fuck down. 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