{"id":1418,"date":"2020-08-05T21:58:16","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T02:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2020-08-05T21:58:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T02:58:16","slug":"shadow-chasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/2020\/08\/05\/shadow-chasing\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadow Chasing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Have you ever been in a place where life seems filled with shadows? And you can&#8217;t quite figure out what it is about those shadows that keeps drawing you in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For some shadows represent darkness, dark time, the boogeyman, trouble, and a foreshadowing of things to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet, what if those shadows are merely a form of ourselves?<br>&#8230;the US that no one fully knows.<br>\u2026the playful, mischievous self that fads in and out; teasing the mind and soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What if that shadow represents the self we have yet to discover?<br>&#8230;the one hiding away the BIG dreams.<br>\u2026the creative ideas and the innovative solutions.<br>\u2026the songstress ready to soar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What if that shadow is our reckless abandon beckoning us to live?<br>&#8230;to let the music out and the light in.<br>&#8230;to live more fully.<br>\u2026to love more deeply.<br>\u2026to grow right where we are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What if that shadow is a foreshadowing of things to come?<br>&#8230;to grasp our own opportunities.<br>\u2026to hear our own melody.<br>\u2026to paint our own reality.<br>\u2026to write our own future.<br>\u2026to truly LIVE; unabashedly, audaciously LIVE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This comes easier for some than others, but we must live child-like. As I watch my little shadow chaser and laugh a robust, room filling laugh, I can&#8217;t help but think&#8230;this, this is the way to be&#8230;relentlessly SHADOW CHASING!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"is-layout-flow wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"http:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/shadow-chasing.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever been in a place where life seems filled with shadows? And you can&#8217;t quite figure out what it is about those shadows&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/shadow.png","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}