{"id":20619,"date":"2013-11-02T11:00:14","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/?p=20619"},"modified":"2013-11-04T23:12:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T04:12:30","slug":"deployment-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/deployment-day-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Deployment Day #3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today started rainy and blustery and ended up beautiful and warm. The kids ate dinner outside and played until the sun went down, which seemed to happen too soon.<\/p>\n

I found my son and his friend discussing the changing leaves in our backyard. We all agreed this was our favorite.<\/p>\n

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As we discussed the changing leaves the year ahead played through my mind.<\/p>\n

How many leaves will change?<\/p>\n

How many missed birthdays?<\/p>\n

How many missed “firsts”?<\/p>\n

How many missed celebrations?<\/p>\n

The sadness that made it hard to breathe on Wednesday has been replaced by a sadness of missed moments and memories.<\/p>\n

I’m fighting to keep my sadness from knowing what is missed from overshadowing my joy in these moments.<\/p>\n

We are blessed.<\/p>\n

My husband has been deployed to the Middle East for 274 days. These are my real thoughts expressing my heart during his absence. I appreciate your prayers and kind words as we cope, adapt, and carry on without him until August 2014. To read from the beginning, click here<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today started rainy and blustery and ended up beautiful and warm. The kids ate dinner outside and played until the sun went down, which seemed to happen too soon. I found my son and his friend discussing the changing leaves in our backyard. We all agreed this was our favorite. As we discussed the changing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[785,2795],"class_list":{"0":"post-20619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-military","7":"tag-deployment","8":"tag-deployment-2013","9":"entry","10":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20619"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20651,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20619\/revisions\/20651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}