{"id":1903,"date":"2011-11-07T17:21:51","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T06:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/?p=1903"},"modified":"2011-11-22T15:03:14","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T04:03:14","slug":"it-gets-better-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/2011\/11\/07\/it-gets-better-2\/","title":{"rendered":"It gets better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dk63n_FjyLI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As someone who always felt out of place in the country town I grew up, it would&#8217;ve been nice to have say something like this to me. I was never sure why I didn&#8217;t fit in, I just knew that I didn&#8217;t. And of course, it being a country town, being different and not fitting in wasn&#8217;t a good thing. High school wasn&#8217;t a fun period for me and I really wish someone could&#8217;ve told me that it does indeed, get better.<\/p>\n<p>The things they say in the video are true &#8211; high school and your teenage years are like a monochrome version of a technicolour world. The things you worry about in high school mean absolutely nothing once you grow up.<\/p>\n<p>Of course this isn&#8217;t to say that it&#8217;s all sunshine and roses. It&#8217;s not. Sometimes it&#8217;s suck monumentally but that&#8217;s the nature of our lives. Something good and something bad. You can&#8217;t have one without the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As someone who always felt out of place in the country town I grew up, it would&#8217;ve been nice to have say something like this to me. I was never sure why I didn&#8217;t fit in, I just knew that I didn&#8217;t. And of course, it being a country town, being different and not fitting in wasn&#8217;t a good thing. High school wasn&#8217;t a fun <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/2011\/11\/07\/it-gets-better-2\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[395],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1908,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions\/1908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}