{"id":599,"date":"2014-02-03T12:34:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T12:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.happiness-speaker.co.uk\/?p=599"},"modified":"2014-02-03T12:34:32","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T12:34:32","slug":"feeling-blessed-grateful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/building.happiness-speaker.com\/?p=599","title":{"rendered":"Feeling blessed and grateful"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #f59329;\">gratitude<\/span><\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<pre>grati|tude<\/pre>\n<div>Pronunciation: \/\u02c8grat\u026atju\u02d0d<\/div>\n<section>\n<h4>noun<\/h4>\n<p><em> [mass noun]<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>the quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness: <em>she expressed her gratitude to the committee for their support<\/em><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<h4>Origin<\/h4>\n<p>late Middle English: from Old French, or from medieval Latin <em>gratitudo<\/em>, from Latin <em>gratus<\/em> &#8216;pleasing, thankful&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>(definitions above taken from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxforddictionaries.com\/definition\/english\/gratitude\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oxford English Dictionary Online<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #7f3f98;\">Today, on 3rd February 2014, I have lots of reasons to be grateful and feel blessed.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Four years ago, to the day, my family and I experienced the worst fear any parent will ever experience.\u00a0 Our eldest daughter, Charlotte, aged 12 at the time, didn&#8217;t wake up that morning.\u00a0 That day, and the days that followed, were traumatic and filled with despair.\u00a0 We didn&#8217;t know whether we&#8217;d ever get Charlotte back after she had suffered a sudden cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00aeef;\">[ This post was originally published on my www.frederikaroberts.co.uk site.\u00a0 To read the full post, please go to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/frederikaroberts.co.uk\/2014\/02\/03\/feeling-blessed-and-grateful\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #00aeef;\">Feeling blessed and grateful<\/span><\/a>&#8221; ]<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>gratitude grati|tude Pronunciation: \/\u02c8grat\u026atju\u02d0d noun [mass noun] the quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness: she expressed her gratitude to the committee for their support Origin late Middle English: from Old French, or from medieval Latin gratitudo, from Latin gratus &#8216;pleasing, thankful&#8217;. (definitions above taken from Oxford English Dictionary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,39,4],"tags":[32,33,34,35,36,37,38,40,41,42,43,44,45,46],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-gratitude","category-happiness","tag-blessed","tag-cardiac-arrest","tag-charlie","tag-charlotte","tag-defibrillator","tag-doncaster-royal-infirmary","tag-grateful","tag-gratitude-2","tag-leeds-general-infirmary","tag-luck","tag-lucky","tag-s-icd","tag-shoes","tag-sub-cutaneous-defibrillator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/building.happiness-speaker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/building.happiness-speaker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/building.happiness-speaker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/building.happiness-speaker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/building.happiness-speaker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/building.happiness-speaker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/building.happiness-speaker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/building.happiness-speaker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/building.happiness-speaker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}