{"id":362,"date":"2009-08-13T15:02:38","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T21:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=362"},"modified":"2010-01-26T15:57:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T21:57:20","slug":"how-stressed-and-harried-are-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/how-stressed-and-harried-are-we\/","title":{"rendered":"How Stressed and Harried Are We?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As another follow-up to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/messages\/Date\/AUG_09_2009.php\">sermon<\/a> on Mary and Martha, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/15808494\">this assessment<\/a> from MSNBC writer, Julia Sommerfield, is illustrative and sobering. She suggests that most Americans are so stressed and harried that they seemingly live to complain about how stressed they are!\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Millions of Americans are so stressed they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have time for, among other things: lunch, <span>vacation<\/span>, sleep, exercise, time with their family or even sex.\u00c2\u00a0One thing they do have plenty of time for? Talking about how stressed they are. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">People are now determining their self-worth on how busy they are and how much they have to do &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Ouch! I know. But go ahead and read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/15808494\">the whole thing<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As another follow-up to the sermon on Mary and Martha, this assessment from MSNBC writer, Julia Sommerfield, is&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/how-stressed-and-harried-are-we\/\">Continue Reading &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,39,41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}