{"id":375,"date":"2013-08-21T09:45:39","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T16:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nancymthurston.wordpress.com\/?p=375"},"modified":"2013-08-21T09:45:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T16:45:39","slug":"when-life-throws-you-a-tornado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancymthurston.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/21\/when-life-throws-you-a-tornado\/","title":{"rendered":"When Life Throws You a Tornado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nancymthurston.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/21\/when-life-throws-you-a-tornado\/attachment\/376\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-376\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-376\" alt=\"Tornado at Sunset\" src=\"http:\/\/nancymthurston.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/tornado-at-sunset.jpg?w=150&#038;resize=150%2C105\" width=\"150\" height=\"105\" \/><\/a>I awoke startled from a dream. A house was flying through the air, beginning to come apart amid an iron, ironing board, car, flip-flops and furniture heading in every direction.<\/p>\n<p>What is needed for this time when everything seems to be flying off its hinges or soaring up from tried and true foundations? Lord only knows where it will all land.<\/p>\n<p>The invitation I hear in the middle of this chaos is to let it all go. Don\u2019t look for landing spots. And, hardest of all, don\u2019t be afraid.<\/p>\n<p>I am flying through the air myself. Am I the iron\u2014desperately wanting to remove some wrinkles? Am I driving the car that has left the road behind?<\/p>\n<p>Every time I wake up during a sleepless night, I am off and flying in my thoughts and fears. No landing in sight.<\/p>\n<p>When life throws me a tornado, I need to learn to fly\u2014or swirl or release.<\/p>\n<p>The rest is up in the air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I awoke startled from a dream. A house was flying through the air, beginning to come apart amid an iron, ironing board, car, flip-flops and furniture heading in every direction. What is needed for this time when everything seems to be flying off its hinges or soaring up from tried and true foundations? Lord only &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nancymthurston.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/21\/when-life-throws-you-a-tornado\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When Life Throws You a Tornado&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-spirituality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancymthurston.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancymthurston.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancymthurston.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancymthurston.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancymthurston.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nancymthurston.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancymthurston.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancymthurston.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancymthurston.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}