{"id":820,"date":"2008-01-16T19:25:49","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T23:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2008\/01\/16\/foul-trouble\/"},"modified":"2008-01-17T11:19:01","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T15:19:01","slug":"foul-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/820","title":{"rendered":"Foul Troubles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it just me, or has this been a rugged year so far? Joan is emphatically right when she keeps <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/2008\/01\/14\/gratitude\/\">an emphasis on life\u2019s blessings<\/a>, but that doesn\u2019t mean there aren\u2019t plenty of struggles along the way. I just spent the better part of a week scraping back together a functional workstation, and, as you\u2019ve no doubt heard me whine before, my lifestyle dependency on computers is a major source of distress from time to time. For me, few things trigger such a sense of the forlorn. Perhaps it will continue until I learn to transcend it\u2014or finally accept at an even deeper level that there\u2019s a supreme power in control of my existence.<\/p>\n<p>I remind myself that any flirtation with modes of complaint is without validity, for is there really a soul in the world who isn\u2019t weathering his own vicissitudes? (Tom Cruise doesn\u2019t count, dammit.) I think of my friends the Bells, or the school community in Marion County, or Janet and Jerome, and I can\u2019t help but consider that much of life involves suffering. I suppose it\u2019s about how we deal with it.<img src='http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/belle133.jpg' alt='belle133.jpg'\/  hspace=\"11\" vspace=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/p>\n<p>Take my niece Hayley, for example. Surely she had a much different expectation of how her 11th-grade basketball season would transpire, compared to the difficulties that came around the corner instead. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amnews.com\/public_html\/?module=displaystory&#038;story_id=37592&#038;format=html\">A recent media story<\/a> laid it all out before the public. Good grief. Nevertheless, among her top competitors, she still leads the area with an 80% free-throw percentage. Hardly anybody on the court has been pressured this winter as much as Belle, but she maintains her composure at the line.<\/p>\n<p>Like I said before, it\u2019s about how we deal with it. Keep plugging, \u201cgril.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it just me, or has this been a rugged year so far? Joan is emphatically right when she keeps an emphasis on life\u2019s blessings, but that doesn\u2019t mean there aren\u2019t plenty of struggles along the way. I just spent the better part of a week scraping back together a functional workstation, and, as you\u2019ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,18,69,16,34,10,14,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}