{"id":5873,"date":"2010-12-16T19:22:29","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T01:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=5873"},"modified":"2010-12-16T19:22:29","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T01:22:29","slug":"thankful-thursday-the-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20101216-5873.htm","title":{"rendered":"Thankful Thursday: The End(s)d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are things we don&#8217;t like to see end&#8211;and things we can&#8217;t wait to see end.  Ends can be happy&#8211;or they can be melancholy.  This week, I&#8217;ve had some ends I&#8217;ve been expectantly anticipating&#8211;ends that have come at last.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/category\/thankfulness\/thankful-thursday\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Thankful Thursday banner\" src=\"images\/buttons\/thankfulthursday.jpg\" title=\"Thankful Thursday banner\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Today I&#8217;m thankful&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;for the END of commuting between Lincoln and Columbus<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;for the END of the semester teaching at the University<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;for the END of catching up from last month&#8217;s conference in Boston<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;for the END of last night&#8217;s treacherous drive<\/p>\n<p>When there&#8217;s so much going on in my life and so much tossing me in every direction, I&#8217;m thankful to have some of it come to an end.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m thankful for the new beginnings every ending heralds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are things we don&#8217;t like to see end&#8211;and things we can&#8217;t wait to see end. Ends can be happy&#8211;or they can be melancholy. This week, I&#8217;ve had some ends I&#8217;ve been expectantly anticipating&#8211;ends that have come at last. Today I&#8217;m thankful&#8230; &#8230;for the END of commuting between Lincoln and Columbus &#8230;for the END of &#8230; <a title=\"Thankful Thursday: The End(s)d\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20101216-5873.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thankful Thursday: The End(s)d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[42],"tags":[148,386],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5873"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}