{"id":15101,"date":"2016-11-24T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T19:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2016\/11\/24\/unpacking-baggage\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:34","slug":"unpacking-baggage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2016\/11\/24\/unpacking-baggage\/","title":{"rendered":"Unpacking Baggage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I went with my mum to her church&#8217;s coffee morning. Those are great conversations I always enjoy, but today the youth minister went one further and volunteered to go to my house and unstack the boxes so I could start unpacking. Even better, once there, he also reassembled our couch.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The physical work was a huge help, but even more helpful was how it lightened my mindset to suddenly be able to make progress, when just yesterday I felt deflated and helpless.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Nathan!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1495\/20161124151334-scaled_image.jpg.webp\" alt=\"the living room begins\"><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I went with my mum to her church&#8217;s coffee morning. Those are great conversations I always enjoy, but today the youth minister went one further and volunteered to go to my house and unstack the boxes so I could start unpacking. Even better, once there, he also reassembled our couch. The physical work was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}