{"id":686,"date":"2003-09-12T14:25:27","date_gmt":"2003-09-12T21:25:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=686","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not sure if it is to the day.  But it has been 10 years since I experienced one of the most traumatic events of my life.  It was the event that one could say was a turning point..or a down point.  The one that encouraged the development of my social anxiety and my distaste of superficiality.  I wish I could joke and say that it was something dumb like the day I learned how to pronouce <i>lingerie<\/i> (that was in 7th grade btw).  But it wasn\\&#8217;t&#8230;and I probably have repeated it several times before, \\&#8217;twas the <a href=\\\"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/bio\/heather.html\\\">heather incident<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I remember after it happened&#8230;I always wondered whether I would have a chance at being \\&#8221;normal\\&#8221;.  And because I had determined that I couldn\\&#8217;t, I adopted the motto of <i>Don\\&#8217;t be normal; be different<\/i>.  And as a result of that incident, I rarely wear outlandish clothes.  Or bright colors.  And I wince if someone makes a comment about my clothes&#8230;always on the edge of fear that I am not wearing something normal.  Yet, I shouldn\\&#8217;t always blame things that happen now on things that happened a decade ago.  If it wasn\\&#8217;t for Heather, would I have more confidence than I have now?  Or would it not have made a difference at all?  If I had succeeded, would I have always stayed vengeful?<\/p>\n<p>But I still go out&#8230;with uncombed, unbrushed hair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not sure if it is to the day. But it has been 10 years since I experienced one of the most traumatic events of my life. It was the event that one could say was a turning point..or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=686\">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-686","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\/686","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=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}