{"id":148,"date":"2026-08-23T20:55:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T20:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/midlifeunraveling.org\/?p=148"},"modified":"2026-08-23T20:55:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T20:55:42","slug":"brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifeunraveling.org\/index.php\/2026\/08\/23\/brooklyn\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At night my head has been &#8230; Worrying the costs of the trip. Particularly weird cause I forgot that I got the breakfast package and I knew we&#8217;d be spending money on food. So this is almost a bonus. Yet my mind is worrying on it. Not about it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s like it is mindlessly touching and scratching a scab.\u00a0 It wants to worry, so it&#8217;s just picking a thing to worry on. I&#8217;m glad I figured it out.\u00a0 It&#8217;s similar to the shame. The shame knows I should feel like a shit person, so it scans around for a reason. And any reason will do . The worry seems the same. Just looking for something &#8211; object A. If that object is gone, it&#8217;ll find another there one.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I see you, Worry. I <em>see<\/em> you.\u00a0 I feel you. You&#8217;re in my stomach. Upper chest. I&#8217;m prepared for this trip. I&#8217;m prepared for the cost. I&#8217;m ok with anything unexpected that comes up. It will not be catastrophic.\u00a0 I accept the risks. It&#8217;s ok. What if we have a good time?\u00a0 Is that allowed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At night my head has been &#8230; Worrying the costs of the trip. Particularly weird cause I forgot that I got the breakfast package and I knew we&#8217;d be spending money on food. So this is almost a bonus. Yet my mind is worrying on it. Not about it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s like it is mindlessly touching and scratching a scab.\u00a0 It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifeunraveling.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifeunraveling.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifeunraveling.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifeunraveling.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifeunraveling.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/midlifeunraveling.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/midlifeunraveling.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifeunraveling.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifeunraveling.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifeunraveling.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}