{"id":394,"date":"2008-11-01T03:55:37","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T03:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/switchingtime.wordpress.com\/?p=394"},"modified":"2008-11-01T03:55:37","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T03:55:37","slug":"karen-answers-marilyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=394","title":{"rendered":"Karen answers Marilyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><a href=\"http:\/\/switchingtime.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/01\/karen-answers-marilyn\/\">Comment by Marilyn on October 31, 2008 6:50 pm<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Dear Karen,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>I feel so sad for you. I don\u2019t know you but you must be petrified with Halloween and the memories triggered. I read you completed therapy but can\u2019t imagine how you did when I could throw up just thinking about what you went through. How could you give out treats today? Can\u2019t someone else do it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Marilyn<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Dear Marilyn,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>How nice of you to think of me on this day.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I appreciated your concern, but there is no need to feel sad for me.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I am not petrified of the Halloween holiday. I no longer experience the pain I once suffered when this date triggered horrific memories. I actually enjoy the children dressing up in costumes and passing out candy treats to all the trick or treaters!<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I will never again allow myself to live in fear of those who wronged me.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>My horrific memories of abuse, once suffered on this day, were put to rest in the same way my abusers were\u2014they are dead.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Besides, it&#8217;s much better to be a part of this day than to hide from it!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Happy Halloween!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Karen<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment by Marilyn on October 31, 2008 6:50 pm Dear Karen, I feel so sad for you. I don\u2019t know you but you must be petrified with Halloween and the memories triggered. I read you completed therapy but can\u2019t imagine how you did when I could throw up just thinking about what you went through. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-karens-answers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}