{"id":366,"date":"2014-12-05T12:10:17","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T17:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=366"},"modified":"2015-12-05T12:14:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T17:14:40","slug":"staying-open-to-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=366","title":{"rendered":"staying open to love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>if you know me, you may know that I am a great proponent of Love,<br \/>\nin all forms it touches me and graces my life,<br \/>\ncentres me, swells my heart and often all too easily pours forth from my eyes and lips.<br \/>\nI try to keep the middle of me open and available always<br \/>\nto the giving and receiving, the ebb and flow, the me to you<span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><br \/>\nthe you to me.<br \/>\nand this, this is what I receive<br \/>\na man who cares for me through five or six weeks of pain and discomfort<br \/>\nwho lets me grasp him in a death grip of pain, and stays .. just there &#8230;<br \/>\nwhile I struggle to breathe<br \/>\nwhose presence, strength and love, gently brings me back to myself<br \/>\nwho has now spent more than a week sleeping on the couch,<br \/>\nme in the chair,<br \/>\nno matter how many times I tell him he will be more comfortable upstairs,<br \/>\nbecause I am unable to comfortably lie in our bed, and because he says he needs to be here.<br \/>\ndaughters who bless my days with laughter, which is kind of painful<br \/>\nyet also kind of wonderful<br \/>\nand friends who continue to bless me with kind words, caring hearts and really important and very much appreciated connections.<br \/>\nthe kind of Love that surrounds<br \/>\nand embodies<br \/>\nthe essence of me<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>stay open .. .. \u2665<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>if you know me, you may know that I am a great proponent of Love, in all forms it touches me and graces my life, centres me, swells my heart and often all too easily pours forth from my eyes&hellip; <br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=366\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}