{"id":9137,"date":"2015-01-31T05:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/wordpress\/?p=9137"},"modified":"2015-01-30T21:21:41","modified_gmt":"2015-01-31T05:21:41","slug":"something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=9137","title":{"rendered":"Some people just know…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every now and then the things I lean on lose their meaning
\nand I find myself careening in places where I should not let me go.
\nShe has the power to go where no one else can find me and to silently remind me
\nof the happiness and the good times that I know
\n—-James Taylor\/ Something in the Way She Moves<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Some people have the gift. <\/p>\n

Of talking people down
\nSaying the right thing
\nBeing a presence of calm
\nKnowing when to be there
\nKnowing when to just listen and when to give advice
\nComing by with food
\nComing by with rakes and pruning shears
\nJust telling you what they are going to do when you are too stubborn or embarrassed to ask for help
\nNot being too nice to you when they can see you are on the edge of breaking down and a hug might send you right over that edge
\nPretending not to notice that you’re falling apart until you have it together enough to talk about it
\nKnowing when matter-of-fact is the way to go<\/p>\n

I take it back–those people don’t have<\/em> a gift–they are<\/em> the gift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every now and then the things I lean on lose their meaning and I find myself careening in places where I should not let me go. She has the power to go where no one else can find me and to silently remind me of the happiness and the good times that I know —-James … Continue reading Some people just know…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9204,"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-9137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michellejolin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_9326-0.jpg?fit=2250%2C3000&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lr3R-2nn","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6161,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=6161","url_meta":{"origin":9137,"position":0},"title":"Sometimes a golf ball is not just a golf ball","author":"Michelle","date":"June 12, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Not too long ago, after a somewhat epic afternoon and evening drinking wine on Tequila Hill, I went golfing with Chelle, Rick and Kyle. 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