{"id":22228,"date":"2023-02-19T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=22228"},"modified":"2023-02-18T19:37:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T00:37:23","slug":"letting-go-of-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=22228","title":{"rendered":"Letting Go of Things"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It may sound silly, but I feel more like myself since I started studying French again. Maybe it&#8217;s because of that fascination I had for it as a child. It&#8217;s something that&#8217;s been with me always, and something that I worked hard on during many years of my schooling. Then I simply dropped it. Once school was over, I had no easy way to continue my studies or any strong motivation to do so. I always thought I&#8217;d return to it someday, but without an actual deadline or a reason to take it up again, I didn&#8217;t. I allowed a whole aspect of my personality to wither up and nearly die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s natural, I suppose. Over the course of our lives we have to let some dreams die. We grow up, and we grow out of things. That&#8217;s all fine and necessary. I just wonder if perhaps I should have been more careful about which dreams I let go of. Maybe some of them were the wrong ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may sound silly, but I feel more like myself since I started studying French again. Maybe it&#8217;s because of that fascination I had for it as a child. It&#8217;s something that&#8217;s been with me always, and something that I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=22228\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22228"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22470,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22228\/revisions\/22470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}