{"id":1628,"date":"2011-04-10T21:08:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T01:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=1628"},"modified":"2014-09-26T19:26:06","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T23:26:06","slug":"days-365-3-letting-go-of-the-familiar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/days-365-3-letting-go-of-the-familiar\/","title":{"rendered":"365+#3: Letting Go of the Familiar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Days-365-+-computer-familiar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1631\" title=\"Days 365 + computer familiar\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Days-365-+-computer-familiar-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Aarrgh! I just got a new computer and that should be good because my old one was dying, but \u2013 the adjustments to upgraded software are a headache.<br \/>\nI\u2019ve also been walking with my parents lately as they try to make decisions about possibly moving to a retirement center \u2013 also a good thing that will make their life easier\u2026eventually.<br \/>\nI\u2019m thinking about how hard it is to let go of our familiar surroundings, ways of doing things, and patterns, even when they promise good things. It\u2019s like experiencing mini-deaths as we let go of the old to move into the unfamiliar future.<br \/>\nOf course lots of people do this when they move, lose or change jobs, get married or divorced, have or launch a child&#8230; Even it if it is a desired change, it takes a while to get comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>Zen Question: How long does it take for the new to become old?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aarrgh! I just got a new computer and that should be good because my old one was dying, but \u2013 the adjustments to upgraded software are a headache. I\u2019ve also been walking with my parents lately as they try to make decisions about possibly moving to a retirement center \u2013 also a good thing that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-1628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beyond-stuff","tag-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1628"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1662,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions\/1662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}