{"id":9862,"date":"2024-07-02T19:26:57","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T19:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.butterflyeffectbethechange.com\/?p=9862"},"modified":"2024-07-02T19:26:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T19:26:57","slug":"joy-is-my-act-of-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.butterflyeffectbethechange.com\/joy-is-my-act-of-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy is my act of resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>\u201cJoy is an act of resistance\u201d Toi Derricote<\/em><br>It\u2019s been a really rough few days for me. And I\u2019m okay with a range of emotion; with pendulating back and forth between my ups and downs. I still want to have my family see me expressing my human emotions. But there are days when I feel like curling up in bed, pulling up the covers and not coming out. Those days when I find myself slipping into darkness. I bought a shirt last year with the quote on it \u201cjoy is an act of resistance\u201d I bought it to remind myself that I want to choose to be a bearer of light. Even when I feel the darkness closing in. So when I felt myself spiraling too deeply into the dark the last few days, I committed to joyful acts. Playing piano. Saying yes to an on-line hip hop dance class with my boys. Making a rainy day comfort dinner of homemade soup and cheese bread. Learning a new card game with the family. Taking Chloe for a long walk. And now, writing to share with all of you. I just felt the need for\u00a0 declare \u201cout loud\u201d that today,\u00a0 I choose the discipline of joy. One little act at a time. Joy is my act of resistance. #butterflybtc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cJoy is an act of resistance\u201d Toi DerricoteIt\u2019s been a really rough few days for me. And I\u2019m okay with a range of emotion; with pendulating back and forth between my ups and downs. I still want to have my family see me expressing my human emotions. But there are days when I feel like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyeffectbethechange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyeffectbethechange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyeffectbethechange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyeffectbethechange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyeffectbethechange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyeffectbethechange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9864,"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyeffectbethechange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9862\/revisions\/9864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyeffectbethechange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyeffectbethechange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyeffectbethechange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyeffectbethechange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}