{"id":4193,"date":"2025-07-04T09:19:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T16:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/?p=4193"},"modified":"2025-07-04T09:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T16:20:08","slug":"sometimes-other-people-say-it-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/2025\/07\/04\/sometimes-other-people-say-it-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes, other people say it better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cancel July 4th. The Land of the Free is Gone.\" width=\"629\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K_2_wm8KTpM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have anything to celebrate today. I&#8217;m less of a human being today than I was yesterday. There are a lot of thoughts swirling in my head. I don&#8217;t want this space to about the orange one or politics, but it keeps seeping in. I&#8217;m filled with despair and desperately trying to find some good to write about here. For now, this video sums up my thoughts today.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to step away from the internet for the day and clear my head. I&#8217;ve got my notebook and favorite pen, and handwriting is an amazing and cathartic process.<\/p>\n<p>I will keep pushing on, just, right now, I need to pick my pieces up again before I take another step.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[238,288],"class_list":["post-4193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-mental-health","tag-politics"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4195,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193\/revisions\/4195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}