{"id":1783,"date":"2024-01-01T06:23:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T06:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=1783"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:44","slug":"too-much-alone-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=1783","title":{"rendered":"TOO MUCH ALONE TIME"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Happy New Year!<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These last few days I have been recording a few of the insights 2023 brought me. There are others and maybe I will still record those over the first few days of 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tonight it is late and I am ready to head to sleep, but I will finish the year with one last lesson: even an introvert needs people around.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For these past three days and a half, I have been alone in this house.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, me and the dogs.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have been fighting a sinus infection during that time and finishing up our Christmas letter and &#8230; it&#8217;s been kinda lonely.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It feels like my constitution is beginning to change &#8211; I really do enjoy being around people the older I get.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I spent the last three hours of 2023 in the sanctuary of Sardinia Baptist Church, praying and thinking. A few other people showed up to also think and pray. It was a great end to the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year! These last few days I have been recording a few of the insights 2023 brought me. There are others and maybe I will still record those over the first few days of 2024. Tonight it is late and I am ready to head to sleep, but I will finish the year with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1784,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions\/1784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}