{"id":1580,"date":"2015-10-11T17:27:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T21:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/?p=1580"},"modified":"2015-10-11T17:27:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T21:57:36","slug":"illusionment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/10-11-2015\/illusionment\/","title":{"rendered":"Illusionment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I&#8217;m like you, we both had all kinds of awesome plans for our lives when we were young. Finding a spouse, raking in the dough, maybe being a superhero. We just knew that there were great things in store for us. What about now?<\/p>\n<p>I read a quote that sums up how we can feel as we get older, &#8220;Oh how daily life is.&#8221; All these hopes can get lost, or worse, squashed. I didn&#8217;t become a superhero, but I&#8217;d look terrible in spandex. I tried raking in the dough, but it is better if you bake it and eat it. At this time, I will not address the third dream.<\/p>\n<p>What does that mean? Have I failed? It feels like that sometimes, but I know better. It isn&#8217;t that I didn&#8217;t achieve what I planned, I didn&#8217;t plan what I achieved. So I&#8217;m not where I thought I&#8217;d be. Perhaps I should look at it as I&#8217;m where I need to be, at this point.<\/p>\n<p>When we start to question why God did this or that to us, I think we should stop at look at where we&#8217;re at. Yes, it might not be where we need to be, but wouldn&#8217;t it be more likely that we did it? If I was told the paint was wet, who&#8217;s fault is it that I touched it?<\/p>\n<p>However, maybe we are where we need to be. It isn&#8217;t that we have strayed off course, it&#8217;s that God put us back on the right course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I&#8217;m like you, we both had all kinds of awesome plans for our lives when we were young. Finding a spouse, raking in the dough, maybe being a superhero. We just knew that there were great things in store for us. What about now? I read a quote that sums up how we can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","category-tidbit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1581,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions\/1581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}