{"id":119,"date":"2021-01-17T18:28:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T18:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithoftheheart.co.uk\/?p=119"},"modified":"2021-01-17T18:28:58","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T18:28:58","slug":"to-be-seen-and-not-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithoftheheart.co.uk\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"To be seen and not heard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>That\u2019s exactly how I feel I could summarise the last few months. I\u2019m here but I\u2019m not really sure I have anything to say. Which is obviously a lie, I <strong>always<\/strong> have something to say. But recently it just feels like the only consistent thing I\u2019m saying is mere commentary on the current \u201csituation\u201d if you will. I\u2019ve lost my voice in this pandemic stricken ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m not wallowing in self pity or thinking I\u2019m unique &#8211; I <em>know<\/em> I\u2019m not the only one. Most people I speak to are fed up. Fed up of feeling stifled and caged in by ever changing restrictions, missing what feels like their freedom, and yearning for the old life they had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So what else could anyone do really except emphasise the repercussions of life as we now know it. There doesn\u2019t feel <strong>anything else to do<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that\u2019s where my voice has gone really &#8211; I feel exhausted and depleted from commenting on current life. It\u2019s the same comments I\u2019m churning out over and over again, like some sort of broken record. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At some point I decided I wanted to stop the repetition and turn inwardly. Which is a slippery slope, because the more time spent focussing inward the <em>harder<\/em> it becomes to tease yourself back out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All I can do at the moment is hope for better days to come &#8211; then maybe I\u2019ll have something different and maybe even enriching to say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I live to fight another day &#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s exactly how I feel I could summarise the last few months. I\u2019m here but I\u2019m not really sure I have anything to say. Which is obviously a lie, I always have something to say. But recently it just feels like the only consistent thing I\u2019m saying is mere commentary on the current \u201csituation\u201d if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[21,25,54,47,24,23,33,29,59,60,4,16,20,64,28,11,3,68,48,14,43,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithoftheheart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithoftheheart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithoftheheart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithoftheheart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithoftheheart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithoftheheart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithoftheheart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithoftheheart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithoftheheart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}