{"id":3638,"date":"2009-11-18T01:34:46","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T06:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pinkhairedgirl.net\/?p=3638"},"modified":"2009-11-18T01:34:46","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T06:34:46","slug":"the-tears-that-flow-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/?p=3638","title":{"rendered":"The Tears that Flow, or Not&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Study: On average, women spend 20,000 hours crying in their lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>That seems a bit excessive.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be honest: I&#8217;m not much of a crier. In fact, most of my tears are generally reserved for episodes of Grey&#8217;s Anatomy and Folger&#8217;s Coffee commercials (like one where the son comes home Christmas morning and surprises his family). My mom, on the other hand, cries at the drop of a hat. And I mean, happy &#8211; sad &#8211; whatever.<\/p>\n<p>Psalm 56:8 says, God keeps record of our tears in a bottle. So, I wonder if we all have a certain # of them. Is the number of tears a person cries as unique as the numbers of hairs on our heads? And I also wonder how many more tears I&#8217;d cry, if only I&#8217;d let myself. And how many more tears would each of us cry, if we felt safe to?<\/p>\n<p>Hmm, just some randomness on a Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinkhairedgirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/barca-tears-street-art-sten.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3641\" title=\"barca-tears-street-art-sten\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pinkhairedgirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/barca-tears-street-art-sten.jpg\" alt=\"barca-tears-street-art-sten\" width=\"500\" height=\"121\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study: On average, women spend 20,000 hours crying in their lifetime. That seems a bit excessive. I&#8217;ll be honest: I&#8217;m not much of a crier. In fact, most of my tears are generally reserved for episodes of Grey&#8217;s Anatomy and Folger&#8217;s Coffee commercials (like one where the son comes home Christmas morning and surprises his&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/?p=3638\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Tears that Flow, or Not&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-box-of-chocolates","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}