{"id":1575,"date":"2019-10-13T22:58:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T22:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/?page_id=1575"},"modified":"2022-04-30T20:13:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T20:13:23","slug":"1978-1984","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/true-life\/1978-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"1978 &#8211; 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>At the age of twelve, I was finally finished with elementary school and moving on to Grade 8 and high school.<\/strong> I was pretty scared about the change and somewhat bewildered too. High school was where the big kids were. The world just kept getting bigger, but I felt as small as ever&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During this time of my life, I spent more time than ever in my head, worrying about my family, and wondering about the world around me. I was vaguely starting to visualize my possible future place in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Killarney Secondary was a large high school with maybe eighteen hundred students. The world around me seemed bigger and stranger than ever, and I just felt separate from the people around me. I really didn&#8217;t realize how introverted my personality could be sometimes or how years of dysfunctional home life might have affected my ability to socialize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How could I foresee the ways that life would challenge and strengthen me? Was I starting to form an image of who I wanted to be when I grew up?<\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-page pdfprnt-bottom-right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1575?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1575?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the age of twelve, I was finally finished with elementary school and moving on to Grade 8 and high school. I was pretty scared about the change and somewhat bewildered too. High school was where the big kids were. The world just kept getting bigger, but I felt as small as ever&#8230; During this &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/true-life\/1978-1984\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1978 &#8211; 1984<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2129,"parent":14,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1575","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2327,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1575\/revisions\/2327"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}