{"id":1371,"date":"1992-10-01T09:51:57","date_gmt":"1992-10-01T09:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goodsoul.us\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2013-12-02T13:19:32","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T13:19:32","slug":"blues-aint-nothing-but-a-good-soul-feeling-bad-1001","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.goodsoul.us\/?page_id=1371","title":{"rendered":"10\/01"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BluesAintNothingBookCover\"<\/a>\u201cWhen one has organized his life around something and then it\u2019s lost, it is devastating\u2026. You wonder, \u2018What am I going to do now? How can I bear to live?\u2019\u201d These are the questions posed by Arnold Beisser, a physician paralyzed by polio early in his career. After more than thirty years of a full though physically limited life Dr. Beisser described his thought in Flying Without Wings:<\/i><\/p>\n

The \u201cWhy me?\u201d question and the anger are all parts of the bereavement process\u2026But I realized that digging in to try to avoid dying, being preoccupied with that, keeps one from living life.<\/i><\/p>\n

Life experiences are always transitory and that includes the worst ones as well as the good ones. Things look pretty black at night, then in the morning they look brighter\u2026Depression is the great deceiver.<\/p>\n

It is pointless to go on asking, \u201cWhy me?\u201d The only worthwhile question is, \u201cWhere do I go from here?\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhen one has organized his life around something and then it\u2019s lost, it is devastating\u2026. You wonder, \u2018What am I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1371","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2R4NI-m7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodsoul.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodsoul.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodsoul.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodsoul.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodsoul.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodsoul.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1588,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodsoul.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1371\/revisions\/1588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodsoul.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}