{"id":703,"date":"2012-07-06T00:20:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T05:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/?p=703"},"modified":"2016-11-03T00:21:26","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T05:21:26","slug":"five-minute-friday-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/2012\/07\/06\/five-minute-friday-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Minute Friday: Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;\">Five minutes\u2026. Hmm. Expectations are unmet in so many ways. I expected as a child to have parents who loved me, or at least acted like they did. Hmm. I expected as a teen that everyone would like me or at least act like they did. Hmm. I expected as a young woman that my life would be perfect or at least look like it was. Hmm. I expected as a mother that I would always do the right thing, always be the smiling Susie homemaker, or at least look like I was. Hmm. I expected as an adult that I would be treated as one, or at least feel like I was one. Hmm. Now my expectations are more realistic- I am confident in the One who made me, that my expectations in Him are well met; that He makes me whole, perfect, loved by Him. Nothing else matters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;\">Ding.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;\">Check out other 5-minute links on 5-minute fridays!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;\"><a title=\"Five Minute Friday\" href=\"http:\/\/lisajobaker.com\/five-minute-friday\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: none;\" title=\"Five Minute Friday\" src=\"http:\/\/lisajobaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/5minutefriday.jpg\" alt=\"Five Minute Friday\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five minutes\u2026. Hmm. Expectations are unmet in so many ways. I expected as a child to have parents who loved me, or at least acted like they did. Hmm. I expected as a teen that everyone would like me or at least act like they did. Hmm. I expected as a young woman that my &#8230; <a title=\"Five Minute Friday: Expectations\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/2012\/07\/06\/five-minute-friday-expectations\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Five Minute Friday: Expectations\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-five-minute-fridays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":704,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions\/704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}