{"id":31479,"date":"2020-03-13T22:48:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T03:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=31479"},"modified":"2020-03-13T22:51:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T03:51:41","slug":"briefly-whos-on-your-mind-in-a-crisis-thats-who-you-really-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=31479","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: Who\u2019s on your mind in a crisis? That\u2019s who you really love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Mother-and-daughter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31480\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Mother-and-daughter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Mother-and-daughter.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Mother-and-daughter-300x173.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Times of crisis can teach us a lot about ourselves, if we\u2019re willing to pay attention. The coronavirus pandemic right now is a good opportunity to learn from something terrible. A lot of people are scared at the moment and it\u2019s hard to blame them, because it\u2019s impossible to say how much worse things might get and who might be hit. But who do your thoughts turn to right now? Who\u2019s on your mind? Who do you worry about? If you\u2019ll pay attention to these questions \u2014 and answer honestly \u2014 you\u2019ll tell yourself a lot about who you really love. Even if I can\u2019t protect those few who I worry about, I know where my thoughts are. I know who I wish I could run away with to somewhere safe. I know who I wish I could protect. I know who I love. It\u2019s a good exercise to reflect on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Times of crisis can teach us a lot about ourselves, if we\u2019re willing to pay attention. The coronavirus pandemic right now is a good opportunity to learn from something terrible. A lot of people are scared at the moment and it\u2019s hard to blame them, because it\u2019s impossible to say how much worse things might <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=31479\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-briefly","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-8bJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31479"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31483,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31479\/revisions\/31483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}