{"id":7021,"date":"2021-02-10T04:00:25","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T04:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/?p=7021"},"modified":"2021-02-22T08:36:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T08:36:37","slug":"why-we-all-need-a-father-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/why-we-all-need-a-father-figure\/","title":{"rendered":"Embracing life lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-excerpt\">\n    <p>The last few months have taught Miles Protter some valuable things \u2013 and one of the biggest has been recognising the value and importance of relationships.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ABOUT A YEAR ago when, like so many others, my work dried up, I went from being productive, busy and \u2018out there\u2019 to someone who was unable to do very much at all.<\/p>\n<p>My sense of my own value and identity has always been wrapped up in success and what I do, so with only that measure to define my self-worth, I felt useless and unwanted. The Western-achieving culture we live in only reinforces that message. And even though so many others were in the same boat as me, it didn\u2019t make me feel any better.<\/p>\n<p>Then something remarkable happened.<\/p>\n<p>To my surprise and delight, friends and relatives I hadn\u2019t spoken to for months, if not years, started talking to each other and inviting me along. Video calls sprang up all over the world. I started communicating regularly with my brothers in Canada, on a family history project to find ...<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Continue Reading<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Subscribe to one of our subscription packages<br \/>\nto get digital access to our articles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Unlimited digital access.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"headerbutton1\" href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/subscriptions\/\">Start a Subscription Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/login-member\/\">Login<\/a><\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last few months have taught Miles Protter some valuable things \u2013 and one of the biggest has been recognising the value and importance of relationships. &nbsp; ABOUT A YEAR ago when, like so many others, my work dried up, I went from being productive, busy and \u2018out there\u2019 to someone who was unable to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-portfolio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7021"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7773,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7021\/revisions\/7773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}