{"id":116,"date":"2006-09-22T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-22T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andybox.com\/?p=116"},"modified":"2007-10-02T11:17:28","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T16:17:28","slug":"the-final-lap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"The Final Lap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are good days. If all goes as planned, one month from today I&#8217;ll be done with school and headed to Fort Lauderdale with my beloved to board our cruise ship. My car is finally running fine again. The temperature is cooling off. We&#8217;ve gotten some good rain lately. We had a great time in Vegas, and you can read about our trip on my new Vegas trip page. The Stars are playing again. I&#8217;m working lots of midnight shifts this month. I&#8217;m working out consistently, although I&#8217;ve pretty much ruled out the Rock and Roll Half-Marathon for this year. Sure, there are plenty of things I could stress about &#8211; how much longer my car will run without expensive repairs, when we should move closer to work, what those lab results will say, etc. But I&#8217;m trying to worry less, relax, and trust God more since He is the only one who knows what&#8217;s coming next. For some reason, I&#8217;m remembering the tremendous value of perspective. There are positives and negatives to just about anything if you look hard enough, and we all get to choose which to focus on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are good days. If all goes as planned, one month from today I&#8217;ll be done with school and headed to Fort Lauderdale with my beloved to board our cruise ship. My car is finally running fine again. The temperature &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=116\">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":[11,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}