{"id":4798,"date":"2021-02-19T14:45:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T20:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=4798"},"modified":"2021-03-03T18:38:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T00:38:28","slug":"bummed-about-a-pandemic-breakup-it-may-be-an-opportunity-for-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/19\/bummed-about-a-pandemic-breakup-it-may-be-an-opportunity-for-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Bummed about a Pandemic Breakup? It May Be an Opportunity for Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class='censored'><span class='additional-text'>This text obscured by ancient, eldritch, sinister CLI magic.<\/span>For better or for worse, human relationships have been altered by the COVID-19 pandemic. While some people\u2019s relationships are accelerating as social circles become more limited, others are experiencing a more difficult shift in their love lives, otherwise known as the pandemic breakup.<\/span> But if you find yourself in the process of a pandemic breakup, don\u2019t fret \u2014 better times are just around the corner.<\/p>\n<p>Wait, what? That\u2019s not what I meant to type at all. I meant to say, you\u2019re fucked. Why did that come out? Why does the headline of this piece say I\u2019ll have an opportunity for growth? There\u2019s nothing good about Alex leaving me \u2014 all she did was tear my heart to shreds and steal my phone charger.<\/p>\n<p>Henry? Is that you? Are you on this Google Doc right now? You edit my piece <em>after<\/em> I write it, not during! I know, you\u2019re the editor, you\u2019re the boss, you can \u2018fix\u2019 my story whenever you want, but at least let me write it first.<\/p>\n<p>No matter if you\u2019re the dumper or dumpee, there\u2019s nothing preventing you from using the hard-earned \u2014 or all-too-easily earned (if you&#8217;re the dumper) \u2014 lessons from your failed relationship for self-improvement.<\/p>\n<p>Henry! Will you please shut up, man? I need this, okay? I need to write this, get it off my chest, I need to let it be known that she hurt me, okay? Changing this piece to make it more optimistic, that\u2019s just insulting, dude.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sorry.<\/p>\n<p>You should be.<\/p>\n<p>Now, where was I?<br \/>\n{{CODE}}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For better or for worse, human relationships have been altered by the COVID-19 pandemic. While some people\u2019s relationships are accelerating as social circles become more limited, others are experiencing a more difficult shift in their love lives, otherwise known as the pandemic breakup. But if you find yourself in the process of a pandemic breakup, don\u2019t fret \u2014 better times are just around the corner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":4736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-special-issue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4899,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798\/revisions\/4899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}