{"id":74,"date":"2020-07-12T15:09:50","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T15:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithoftheheart.co.uk\/?p=74"},"modified":"2020-07-12T15:09:50","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T15:09:50","slug":"sunshine-after-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithoftheheart.co.uk\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"Sunshine after the rain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you speak to anyone who knows me, they might not know about the emotional struggles I have, but they will undoubtedly be able to tell you all about the love I have for my two dear nephews. It\u2019s hard for anyone not to know really &#8211; they are my pride and joy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As clich\u00e9 as it sounds, I really did not know the possibility to love unconditionally until these cherubs came into my life. Of course they have their <em>testing<\/em> moments, but for the most part they bring absolute joy of the purest form into my life.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last few weeks, well few months I guess really, have been challenging &#8211; like everyone, I\u2019ve had my ups and downs and rode the rollercoaster of pandemic\/lockdown emotions. This last week in particular has been full of a <strong>lot<\/strong> of tears; some explainable, some not so much.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, coming home to visit my munchkins has just been bliss. I mean don\u2019t get me wrong, I\u2019m <strong>tired<\/strong>. But their love and pure innocence just reminds me of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">good<\/span> in my life. For all the self doubt and confidence struggles, they show me to just <em>love<\/em>. No conditions. No fears. No regrets. Just live and love.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it\u2019s really that simplicity that seems to elude me, hell all of us a lot of the time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you speak to anyone who knows me, they might not know about the emotional struggles I have, but they will undoubtedly be able to tell you all about the love I have for my two dear nephews. It\u2019s hard for anyone not to know really &#8211; they are my pride and joy.&nbsp; As clich\u00e9 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[57,23,56,4,16,20,55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithoftheheart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74"}],"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=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithoftheheart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/faithoftheheart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithoftheheart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithoftheheart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithoftheheart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}