{"id":584,"date":"2009-01-14T16:56:45","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T16:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2009\/01\/14\/what-is-a-vacation\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:01:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:01:28","slug":"what-is-a-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/what-is-a-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a vacation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Back home in Portland, Oregon<\/p>\n<p>I am back from a two week trip where I learned a lot about myself. First of all, I thought that having free time meant having a vacation. It doesn\u2019t. Free time means that I\u2019m always worrying that I should work more- and I get upset that I\u2019m sick all of the time. A vacation- I just had one for the first time in probably 10 years- is different. One day with my friend Pam, I just walked around San Antonio, Texas and didn\u2019t think about my work at all.\u00a0 I\u00a0 enjoyed the beautiful setting of the River Walk and the company of my friend of over 20 years! I think that is the definition of a vacation from bipolar disorder as well!<\/p>\n<p>Julie<\/p>\n<p>PS: When I got really sick in 1998, I was a mess and lost most of my friends.\u00a0 Pam was in the Peace Corps in Paraguay, so I couldn\u2019t wreck that friendship!<\/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> Back home in Portland, Oregon<\/p>\n<p>I am back from a two week trip where I learned a lot about myself. First of all, I thought that having free time meant having a vacation. It doesn\u2019t. Free time means that I\u2019m always worrying that I should work more- and I get upset that I\u2019m sick all of the time. A vacation- I just had one for the first time in probably 10 years- is different. One day with my friend Pam, I just walked around San Antonio, Texas and didn\u2019t think about my work at all. I enjoyed the beautiful setting of the River Walk and the company of my friend of over 20 years! I think that is the definition of a vacation from bipolar disorder as well!<\/p>\n<p>Julie<\/p>\n<p>PS: When I got really sick in 1998, I was a mess and lost most of my friends. Pam was in the Peace Corps in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/what-is-a-vacation\/\">[ 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\/584"}],"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=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12092,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/12092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}