{"id":26,"date":"2025-07-01T17:34:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T17:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stilltalking.blog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2025-07-01T17:34:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T17:34:03","slug":"i-wish-i-was-joking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stilltalking.blog\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"I wish I was joking!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have to tell y\u2019all this first!  I know you will think I\u2019m being dramatic and exaggerating (because I can be sometimes) but I promise I am not!  I almost could not figure out how to post again!  First of all, I couldn\u2019t get my password to work!  I wrote it down y\u2019all!  So, now I\u2019m wondering what that password I wrote down goes to!  For real, what else did I sign up for?  Then\u2026.. I FINALLY figured out how to reset my password.  Then\u2026\u2026 I couldn\u2019t remember where I clicked to type the actual content yesterday!  If I\u2019m lying, I\u2019m dying!  How can someone be this illiterate when it comes to technology but still manage to online shop like a boss!?!?  (And like someone with a trust fund) A friend asked me yesterday how often I was going to post and I responded with \u201cI don\u2019t Know\u201d.  I really haven\u2019t thought about it.  After my experience trying to figure my way back in here today, I may have to post often so I won\u2019t forget how! Especially at first!  I\u2019m serious.   So, if you get tired of me, I\u2019m sorry.  Just ignore me.  <br><br>What I originally came to say though is Thank y\u2019all for the encouragement!  As a lot of you know, I no longer work with the public.  I keep my grandbaby now and enjoy every minute of it but I miss people!  I am a people person.  I love working with the public!  That is one reason I decided to blog\u2026.. so I have an outlet.  I hope to share some fun things\u2026.. maybe some decorating ideas and other stuff.  I will also be sharing some serious things.  Some struggles I have and some things I\u2019m working on.  Maybe even some books I\u2019m reading or some good restaurants I\u2019ve found.  (I like to eat almost as I like to talk)  Please know that a lot of what I share will be my thoughts and opinions.  I will also be sharing some of my walk with Christ\u2026.. which is an ongoing \u201cwork in progress\/construction zone\u201d.   My goal is to be transparent.  <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, let\u2019s see if I can successfully post this again!  I feel sure it won\u2019t be the end of the world if it doesn\u2019t\ud83d\ude06.  Thanks again for the sweet comments.  I think I replied to them. Who knows? We will just all be surprised!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~Mandy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to tell y\u2019all this first! I know you will think I\u2019m being dramatic and exaggerating (because I can be sometimes) but I promise I am not! I almost could not figure out how to post again! First of <a href=\"http:\/\/stilltalking.blog\/?p=26\"> Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stilltalking.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stilltalking.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stilltalking.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stilltalking.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stilltalking.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/stilltalking.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27,"href":"http:\/\/stilltalking.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stilltalking.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stilltalking.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stilltalking.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}