{"id":2006,"date":"2007-02-20T11:07:19","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T19:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2006"},"modified":"2007-02-20T11:07:19","modified_gmt":"2007-02-20T19:07:19","slug":"resentment-and-forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2006","title":{"rendered":"Resentment and forgiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend recently wrote in her journal: <i>True forgiveness is the willingness to say &#8220;Thank you for giving me that experience.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I believe that.  I don&#8217;t regret the bad experiences.  I wish they didn&#8217;t happen.  In some way, I believe I become a better person because of them.  Some may believe that I had a bad year because of the &#8220;bad luck&#8221; I encountered.<\/p>\n<p>But no, not at all.  Silver linings.  I am still alive and there&#8217;s so much to conquer.  Endless possibilities.  Like every day, today is the beginning of the next beginning.  I did lose at some fights, returning scarred and battered.  But with a touch of belief, I am back again.  It&#8217;s only the horizon that stops me.  But oh wait one can never reach the horizon.  Limitless.<\/p>\n<p>I saw someone I recognized from then crossing 24th street Saturday afternoon.  I was trotting along in my new shoes, trying to break them in.  When I first saw him, I almost choked.  But even with that behind me, I still greeted him with an enthusiastic smile.  We exchanged awkward small talk and parted ways.  Never the end, never the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend recently wrote in her journal: True forgiveness is the willingness to say &#8220;Thank you for giving me that experience.&#8221; I believe that. I don&#8217;t regret the bad experiences. I wish they didn&#8217;t happen. In some way, I believe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2006\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}