{"id":2549,"date":"2013-01-07T09:34:54","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T14:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=2549"},"modified":"2013-01-07T09:34:54","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T14:34:54","slug":"lose-five-pounds-save-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/birthmarked\/lose-five-pounds-save-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Lose Five Pounds, Save the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2550\" title=\"January Morning\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/January-Morning.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" \/>Let us be honest with ourselves.\u00a0 We read books for hope.\u00a0 We fall for characters who change.\u00a0 They overcome odds, grow stronger, face hardships and come out on top.\u00a0 We need these characters.\u00a0 They help us escape, and their terrifying worlds remind us we\u2019re not so bad off.\u00a0 But even more, we need to find the characters within ourselves who can make small, persistent changes for the better.\u00a0 We need to recognize and love who we are, right now, today, even on this Monday of Mondays, and go forward from here.<\/p>\n<p>Let us resolve to take better care of ourselves, because we deserve it, and let us resolve to take better care of the world, because our children deserve it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us be honest with ourselves.\u00a0 We read books for hope.\u00a0 We fall for characters who change.\u00a0 They overcome odds, grow stronger, face hardships and come out on top.\u00a0 We need these characters.\u00a0 They help us escape, and their terrifying worlds remind us we\u2019re not so bad off.\u00a0 But even more, we need to find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthmarked","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2549"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2555,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions\/2555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}