{"id":703,"date":"2010-08-24T18:10:57","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T18:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=703"},"modified":"2010-08-24T18:10:57","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T18:10:57","slug":"my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=703","title":{"rendered":"My Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Written in January 2007)<br \/>\nI\u2019ve spent my life struggling with the wounds of childhood and trying to heal.\u00a0 I used to think that someday I\u2019d be better and I\u2019d get to have a real life.\u00a0 But I\u2019m beginning to see that that isn\u2019t going to happen.\u00a0 I have some good times, but I also get periodically disabled by despair and terror.\u00a0 Most of the time it takes all my energy to get through the day with some dignity and grace.\u00a0 My question is does a life like this benefit anyone other than myself and a few close friends?\u00a0 I\u2019ve never had a full-time job, I was married for a while and am now divorced.\u00a0 I have no children.\u00a0 I\u2019m very concerned about what\u2019s happening to the environment and wish I had energy and time to devote to activism.\u00a0 Some days I can write or call my congresspeople, some days I can\u2019t even pick up the phone.<br \/>\nO yes, but I was part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingdomcounty.com\/journey.html\" target=\"_blank\">Journey into Courage<\/a>, and my story eventually encouraged all the other women to realize that their abuse started in childhood.\u00a0 And the video is still being used to train police and medical people, and help reform batterers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Written in January 2007) I\u2019ve spent my life struggling with the wounds of childhood and trying to heal.\u00a0 I used to think that someday I\u2019d be better and I\u2019d get to have a real life.\u00a0 But I\u2019m beginning to see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=703\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-depression"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}