{"id":1837,"date":"2016-06-19T19:40:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T02:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2016-06-20T04:30:35","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T11:30:35","slug":"back-to-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1837","title":{"rendered":"Back to Normal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150117.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150117.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1838\" \/><\/a>Went to church on Father\u2019s Day, then met Chrystelle who returned to her apartment to pick up some clothes.<\/p>\n<p>She won\u2019t live there again for some time. A long time. Maybe never.<\/p>\n<p>I guess all of us were getting back to normal today.<\/p>\n<p>Normal\u2014what is that exactly?<\/p>\n<p>Days without tragedy? Where bad things don\u2019t happen to good people?<\/p>\n<p>Not in the world where I live.<\/p>\n<p>No, normal is far from perfect. The world I\u2019ve lived in for the last 60-something years has had good days and bad. But the good have far outnumbered the bad.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge seems to be embracing the good while, somehow, with God\u2019s help, muddling through the bad.<\/p>\n<p>This week I intend to do both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went to church on Father\u2019s Day, then met Chrystelle who returned to her apartment to pick up some clothes. She won\u2019t live there again for some time. A long time. Maybe never. I guess all of us were getting back to normal today. Normal\u2014what is that exactly? Days without tragedy? Where bad things don\u2019t happen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1837"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1840,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions\/1840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}