{"id":485,"date":"2008-07-07T18:32:22","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T23:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=485"},"modified":"2009-01-26T22:45:40","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T03:45:40","slug":"facing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=485","title":{"rendered":"Facing It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We met with the Consumer Credit People today. The good news is that there&#8217;s hope. There&#8217;s a way out. The not-necessarily-bad-but-not-fun news is that there&#8217;s going to have to be some severe cutting of stuff in order for us to get this to work. We&#8217;re already stretched, but there are some things that will just have to be dropped.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to go into details. We&#8217;ll be okay. We&#8217;ll still have our health, house, and vehicles. But there are some things we take for granted that we won&#8217;t be able to afford anymore. That&#8217;s just the way it is.<\/p>\n<p>The hardest thing for me is not looking back on all the choices I&#8217;ve made and money I&#8217;ve spent for foolish, crazy things and repeatedly ask myself why I didn&#8217;t show some restraint. I&#8217;ve got to get away from that mentality, because it&#8217;s only going to reinforce the negative feelings. I&#8217;ve got to try to stay positive, believe that Laureen and I (with God&#8217;s grace and help) can do this, and move forward.<\/p>\n<p>And to the fine carhops at Sonic who keep assuming my change is a tip: go read your customer service manual. Please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We met with the Consumer Credit People today. The good news is that there&#8217;s hope. There&#8217;s a way out. The not-necessarily-bad-but-not-fun news is that there&#8217;s going to have to be some severe cutting of stuff in order for us to get this to work. We&#8217;re already stretched, but there are some things that will just &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=485\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Facing It&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}