{"id":18755,"date":"2013-11-15T05:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/?p=18755"},"modified":"2013-11-11T15:49:35","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T20:49:35","slug":"30-days-of-gratitude-day-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/2013\/11\/30-days-of-gratitude-day-15\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Days of Gratitude: Day 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>SugarBabe Steph shares her gratitude for running.<\/h2>\n<p>Three years ago, I could have never run a block, let alone two miles. See, I picked up smoking again and then developed severe asthma. A horrifying trip to the ER after I spent the weekend unable to breathe, a half day of testing, and many doctor appointments&#8212;I quit {again} and have been smoke free since then. To combat the weight gain, I started Couch to 5K about a year ago. I finished that and ran my first race a year ago. I&#8217;ve been running 3-4 times a week since last November. Some days it is a struggle to get out there. \u00a0Some days I feel free, and other days I feel like getting in a mile is so incredibly hard. But running makes me happy. Running makes me a better mom, a better wife, a better person. I have an out for all my energy&#8212;both negative and positive. I am grateful for my sneakers, ear buds, and the road.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppecommunity.com\/gallery\/showphoto.php?photo=302904&amp;title=running-is-my-happy&amp;cat=516\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppecommunity.com\/gallery\/data\/516\/RunningIsMyHappy-Nov2013-700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SugarBabe Steph shares her gratitude for running. Three years ago, I could have never run a block, let alone two miles. See, I picked up smoking again and then developed severe asthma. A horrifying trip to the ER after I spent the weekend unable to breathe, a half day of testing, and many doctor appointments&#8212;I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":18759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18755"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18781,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18755\/revisions\/18781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}