This is kind of interesting. Last week I wrote this in my book:<\/p>\n
The earlier darkness also brought on more feelings of loneliness, as my days were consumed with work and I spent my evenings alone, writing, thinking and listening to music. I hadn\u2019t really dated since the break-up, hadn\u2019t met anyone where things really clicked, and I wasn\u2019t interested in falling into a relationship only for the sake of being in one. I would rather be alone and enjoy my own company than be in unsuitable company. Plus, I\u2019d been working hard trying to carve out who I was and who I wanted to be, continuing to work on myself to break through my own personal boundaries and reach new heights. I remember one sleepless night when I decided to take a walk. It was a cloudless night, no moon, and I looked up at the sky intending to make a wish on the first star I saw. My eyes locked on a bright one, low in the horizon, and I made a wish.<\/em><\/p>\n Like Steve Martin in <\/em>The Jerk, I wished to find my special purpose. And perhaps a red thermos I could call my own.<\/em><\/p>\n A few days later was my birthday. Michael brought out a wrapped present, and my parents informed me that Michael had insisted on buying a present for me, picking it out all by himself. I opened it up, and would you believe it…it was a red Thermos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is kind of interesting. Last week I wrote this in my book: The earlier darkness also brought on more feelings of loneliness, as my days were consumed with work and I spent my evenings alone, writing, thinking and listening to music. I hadn\u2019t really dated since the break-up, hadn\u2019t met anyone where things really […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sbl5mn-5884","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5884"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5886,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5884\/revisions\/5886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}