{"id":1750,"date":"2020-12-01T00:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T04:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/?p=1750"},"modified":"2021-01-05T16:32:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T20:32:59","slug":"new-lease-on-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/new-lease-on-life\/","title":{"rendered":"New Lease on Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everything is temporary.\u00a0 How we feel.\u00a0 That natural high disappears, just as quickly as that powerful feeling of despair, temptation, anger, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Life is too short to be &#8216;right&#8217; instead of happy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/wake_up.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1756 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/wake_up.jpg\" alt=\"wake_up\" width=\"1712\" height=\"2391\" srcset=\"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/wake_up.jpg 1712w, http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/wake_up-458x640.jpg 458w, http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/wake_up-733x1024.jpg 733w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1712px) 100vw, 1712px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, I want to recognize all the people that I know that have died in my lifetime.\u00a0 This is a long list.\u00a0 This includes famous people as well as people I knew personally.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s start with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Hutchence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Hutchence<\/a>, lead singer from Inxs.\u00a0 I&#8217;m listening to him right now on three separate CDs.\u00a0 His death was tragic, like most.\u00a0 On the morning of 11\/22\/97, Hutchence, aged 37, was found dead due to suicide while depressed and under the influence of alcohol and other drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Some other people I would like to talk about include Robin Williams, Phillip Symour Hoffman, both my Grandmothers, my two cousins, a guy who I temporarily sponsored in AA.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything is temporary.\u00a0 How we feel.\u00a0 That natural high disappears, just as quickly as that powerful feeling of despair, temptation, anger, etc. Life is too short to be &#8216;right&#8217; instead of happy. Today, I want to recognize all the people that I know that have died in my lifetime.\u00a0 This is a long list.\u00a0 This &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/new-lease-on-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Lease on Life<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3130,"href":"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions\/3130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}