{"id":4268,"date":"2011-11-02T06:38:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T12:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/?p=4268"},"modified":"2011-11-02T14:25:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T20:25:20","slug":"thats-life-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/2011\/thats-life-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s life. My life."},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>Here is something I wrote in 2006 and never published.<\/pre>\n<pre>It's short and sweet and tells why I wouldn't change my paralysis.<\/pre>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<blockquote>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #333399;\">I have been a paraplegic since 1999. I won't lie. I hate it. It sucks,\u00a0<\/span><\/pre>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #333399;\">but I <\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\">am not going to let this define who I am or tell me what I can\u00a0<\/span><\/pre>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #333399;\">and can't do.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\">I am changed, but still <\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\">the same. I have the same dreams.\u00a0<\/span><\/pre>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #333399;\">I am married and a mommy. My son and husband<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #333399;\"> are the best things <\/span><\/pre>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #333399;\">that ever happened to me and no one can gurantee that they would be who\u00a0<\/span><\/pre>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #333399;\">they are<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #333399;\"> if this hadn't happened <\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #333399;\">to me. You can say I can't be sure of<\/span><\/pre>\n<pre><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #333399;\"> that, I love what I have so much, can't take <\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #333399;\">that chance. I can't think<\/span><\/pre>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #333399;\">about how things might have been. There is no way they could ever have\u00a0<\/span><\/pre>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #333399;\">come even close<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #333399;\"> to being this wonderful.<\/span><\/pre>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Yes, I am stuck in this chair forever. I will never walk, dance or feel\u00a0<\/span><\/pre>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #333399;\">again. I've\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #333399;\">gotten over it. I've moved on.<\/span><\/pre>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Yes, that's life.\u00a0<\/span><\/pre>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #333399;\">My life.<\/span><\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is something I wrote in 2006 and never published. It&#8217;s short and sweet and tells why I wouldn&#8217;t change my paralysis. I have been a paraplegic since 1999. I won&#8217;t lie. I hate it. It sucks,\u00a0 but I am not going to let this define who I am or tell me what I can\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","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":""},"categories":[132,61],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-family","7":"category-featured","8":"entry"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5zEve-16Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}