{"id":256,"date":"2012-07-03T16:36:56","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T23:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2008\/07\/04\/4th-of-julie\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:58:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:58:23","slug":"4th-of-julie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/4th-of-julie\/","title":{"rendered":"4th of Julie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is a huge holiday in the States. It can be a really fun holiday- but it can be a tough one as well!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u00a0If you&#8217;re alone- look on meetin.org or craigslist see if you can find a group of people to meet for a fireworks show. It doesn&#8217;t hurt to try!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; If you&#8217;re like me and can&#8217;t stand the noise of fireworks and all of the crowds-\u00a0 leave early after you have said hi to everyone- or don&#8217;t go at all!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; It&#8217;s ok not to join in the party. It&#8217;s not like you&#8217;re getting paid for it! I always say that opting out is a good biploar disorder management technique!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0I have two parties with friends today. I am going to sit and talk to people- when I get overstimulated- and i will- I&#8217;m not going to listen to the voices that tell me I&#8217;m not as good,\u00a0 skinny or rich as the people around me and I&#8217;m going to have fun.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Julie<\/p>\n<p>this is pretty funny.. I just read the title and realize I write 4th of Julie instead of 4th of July. Ha ha<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/international_fireworks_2_b1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5053\" title=\"international_fireworks_2_b\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/international_fireworks_2_b1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/international_fireworks_2_b1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/international_fireworks_2_b1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/international_fireworks_2_b1-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/international_fireworks_2_b1.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is a huge holiday in the States. It can be a really fun holiday- but it can be a tough one as well!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; If you&#8217;re alone- look on meetin.org or craigslist see if you can find a group of people to meet for a fireworks show. It doesn&#8217;t hurt to try!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; If you&#8217;re like me and can&#8217;t stand the noise of fireworks and all of the crowds- leave early after you have said hi to everyone- or don&#8217;t go at all!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; It&#8217;s ok not to join in the party. It&#8217;s not like you&#8217;re getting paid for it! I always say that opting out is a good biploar disorder management technique!<\/p>\n<p> I have two parties with friends today. I am going to sit and talk to people- when I get overstimulated- and i will- I&#8217;m not going to listen to the voices that tell me I&#8217;m not as good, skinny or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/4th-of-julie\/\">[ Read More ]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11511,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/11511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}