{"id":196,"date":"2006-01-12T13:45:12","date_gmt":"2006-01-12T21:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/12\/dont-take-it-for-granted\/"},"modified":"2006-01-13T18:50:49","modified_gmt":"2006-01-14T02:50:49","slug":"dont-take-it-for-granted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/12\/dont-take-it-for-granted\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t take it for granted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I always valued my life, but I did not value my health until I got sick and ended up with a 8-month hospital stay in intensive care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That conversation with a co-worker brings us back to a basic principle.<\/p>\n<p>We take for granted what comes easily to us. Air, water, family, health. When we don&#8217;t have it, we, then realize our dependence on it. We vow that once we get it back, we will do everything to hold on to it.<\/p>\n<p>When you lose your health, sometimes you cannot regain it. It is best to take care of what we have.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Don&#8217;t ruin your eyes with too much time on the computer.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t ruin your heart with lack of exercise and overeating.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t ruin your skin with over-exposure to the sun.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As my dad would say, &#8220;I am not afraid of dying. I am afraid of not being able to die and linger with poor health.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I always valued my life, but I did not value my health until I got sick and ended up with a 8-month hospital stay in intensive care.&#8221; That conversation with a co-worker brings us back to a basic principle. We take for granted what comes easily to us. Air, water, family, health. When we don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}