{"id":7550,"date":"2021-05-29T02:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7550"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:01","slug":"struggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7550","title":{"rendered":"STRUGGLING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am struggling a bit tonight. Tomorrow is Samuel&#8217;s graduation from North High School and I should be excited and happy. But our plan for years had been that Samuel would be graduating from Cap-Haitien Christian School along with his friends, Brandon, Frantz and Fabio.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead, Brandon, Frantz and Fabio gathered tonight 1,500 miles away from here to celebrate their graduation with a special dinner with their families and teachers &#8230; and we were not a part of it. Tomorrow morning those three guys will receive diplomas in Haiti and Samuel will receive his in Columbus, Indiana.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it just doesn&#8217;t feel right at all.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let me be transparent here. I thought I had done a pretty good job of forgiving certain individuals and a particular organization for sidelining us this past year, but tonight &#8230; tonight I am full of anger and sadness.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t like how I am feeling at all. I am going to bed and I am hoping things will look better in the morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am struggling a bit tonight. Tomorrow is Samuel&#8217;s graduation from North High School and I should be excited and happy. But our plan for years had been that Samuel would be graduating from Cap-Haitien Christian School along with his friends, Brandon, Frantz and Fabio.\u00a0 Instead, Brandon, Frantz and Fabio gathered tonight 1,500 miles away [&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-7550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550","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=7550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7551,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550\/revisions\/7551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}