{"id":190,"date":"2009-03-01T20:40:27","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T20:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/2009\/03\/01\/WaitingWaiting.aspx"},"modified":"2009-03-01T20:40:27","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T20:40:27","slug":"waiting-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"Waiting\u2026 Waiting\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting to talk to Christella today was almost like waiting for Christmas morning as a little child; there was the excitement and the butterflies in the stomach, and yet it was somewhat a little different.\n<\/p>\n<p>Looming in the air was a twinge of sadness, having reinforced that our relationship as father and daughter is confined to face to face 10 minute conversations twice a month and letters that we write to her (but won&#8217;t expect any back in return).\n<\/p>\n<p>When we got done, I was emotionally drained.  I felt like I had been crying for hours\u2026 pathetic I know \u2013 but that was the feeling.  I had a headache, signs of high blood pressure, sick to my stomach and just very, very sad.\n<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so glad we get to talk to her every two weeks, but boy, oh boy, does it really hurt to see her and still know that it&#8217;s going to be a long time before she comes home.\n<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to be a very long year\u2026\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/blog\/content\/binary\/030109_2040_WaitingWait1.png\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting to talk to Christella today was almost like waiting for Christmas morning as a little child; there was the excitement and the butterflies in the stomach, and yet it was somewhat a little different. Looming in the air was a twinge of sadness, having reinforced that our relationship as father and daughter is confined &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/?p=190\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Waiting\u2026 Waiting\u2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adoption","category-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}