{"id":1047,"date":"2005-07-10T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-10T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/why\/"},"modified":"2005-07-10T11:42:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-10T11:42:00","slug":"why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/why\/","title":{"rendered":"Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">If you live long enough you\u2019ll experience emotional heartache. This can be ignored, but at your own cost.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Usually the price is paid many years after the fact.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>You might be someone who likes to bury stuff, but in the end we all deal with the issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n<p><span face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">I have a brother who made a decision a long time ago to destroy his life.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>I\u2019ll let you fill in the blank on how.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>His life has been a crucible for me.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>His example has given me clarity on how some things just don\u2019t make sense\u2026at least on this side of eternity.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Twenty-five years of certain behaviors, and ironically he believes that life is as it should be.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>I have stopped looking for answers and I pray.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Those are the only things that I have left.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n<p><span face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"> <\/span>Find your crucible and live out your intended life.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you live long enough you\u2019ll experience emotional heartache. This can be ignored, but at your own cost.&nbsp; Usually the price is paid many years after the fact.&nbsp; You might be someone who likes to bury stuff, but in the end we all deal with the issue. I have a brother who made a decision&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}