{"id":77,"date":"2010-03-06T08:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T08:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/thinplaces\/2010\/03\/work-a-curse-or-a-blessing.html"},"modified":"2010-03-06T08:51:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T08:51:00","slug":"work-a-curse-or-a-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thinplaces\/2010\/03\/work-a-curse-or-a-blessing.html","title":{"rendered":"Work: A Curse or a Blessing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a new post on The Park Forum: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/theparkforum.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/04\/843-acres-work-a-curse-or-a-blessing\/\">Work: A Curse or a Blessing?<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a new post on The Park Forum: &#8220;Work: A Curse or a Blessing?&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-down-syndrome"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Work: A Curse or a Blessing? 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