{"id":37,"date":"2006-07-11T14:35:45","date_gmt":"2006-07-11T21:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sackrider.org\/myblog\/category\/family\/dropping-the-ball"},"modified":"2025-06-15T06:07:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T06:07:50","slug":"dropping-the-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/dropping-the-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"Dropping the ball&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I missed the mark&#8230; I didn&#8217;t invite anyone from work to our church sponsored barbeque and I didn&#8217;t invite my neighbors.\u00c2\u00a0 I really fell short.\u00c2\u00a0 I have excusses, but why bother?\u00c2\u00a0 I missed it, plain and simple.\u00c2\u00a0 What do I need to do to change?\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s too simplistic to say, &#8220;<em>I can&#8217;t change myself, I have to rely on God<\/em>&#8221; but too overwelming to say &#8220;<em>I&#8217;ll pull myself up by my bootstraps, and fix this thing<\/em>&#8220;.\u00c2\u00a0 It has to be somewhere in the middle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I missed the mark&#8230; I didn&#8217;t invite anyone from work to our church sponsored barbeque and I didn&#8217;t invite my neighbors.\u00c2\u00a0 I really fell short.\u00c2\u00a0 I have excusses, but why bother?\u00c2\u00a0 I missed it, plain and simple.\u00c2\u00a0 What do I need to do to change?\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s too simplistic to say, &#8220;I can&#8217;t change myself, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2926,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/2926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}