{"id":495,"date":"2007-11-11T23:17:09","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T03:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=495"},"modified":"2007-11-11T23:17:09","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T03:17:09","slug":"no-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=495","title":{"rendered":"No Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are no words for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oakridger.com\/breakingnews.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">this day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I had to tell my youngest child that her 12 year old friend and classmate has died.&nbsp; A child that everyone loved, who was kind, whom everyone in the rough-and-tumble middle school world considered a friend.&nbsp; That&#8217;s a rare thing, but Ashley was a rare child.<\/p>\n<p>It was incredibly hard to tell her.<\/p>\n<p>A year ago, I engulfed myself in prayer each day for GAC, to no avail.&nbsp; Now, the same thing again, with the same dismal result.&nbsp; I cannot second-guess God, but I will not pretend to understand.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t understand.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The blame game has begun, but the only acceptable response is to listen and understand without responding about budget constraints, or quirks of fate, or any of those other things&#8230; because when faced with such a monumental loss, none of those things matter at all in perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are no words for this day. Today, I had to tell my youngest child that her 12 year old friend and classmate has died.&nbsp; A child that everyone loved, who was kind, whom everyone in the rough-and-tumble middle school &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=495\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}