{"id":319,"date":"2020-04-14T10:59:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T10:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novens.com\/wordpress\/?p=319"},"modified":"2020-04-14T20:25:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T20:25:09","slug":"living-with-the-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/novens.com\/wordpress\/?p=319","title":{"rendered":"Living with the COVID-19 Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I look out of my office window this morning, March 23, it is a cold winter morning. It is snowing heavily in Litchfield, Connecticut. There is very little traffic on the streets. At another time I would probably complain about the snow on the ground at this time of the year. But today I am not complaining. In fact, I am deeply grateful just to be alive, with my beautiful wife Deborah and our sweet dog Muchroi. I am grateful that our son Rob and his wife Kyra are just down the street in their home with our two precious granddaughters, Ella and Hollis.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\u00a0No. I am not complaining. When I read what is happening in China, Italy and Spain, where so many have died and so many are suffering, I can only hope and pray that we can all survive together as a family. It is a time when we should take nothing for granted, and should count every day our blessings. Life truly is a gift to be appreciated and lived fully each day.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I look out of my office window this morning, March 23, it is a cold winter morning. It is snowing heavily in Litchfield, Connecticut. There is very little traffic on the streets. At another time I would probably complain about the snow on the ground at this time of the year. But today I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/novens.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/novens.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/novens.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/novens.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/novens.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/novens.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"http:\/\/novens.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/novens.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/novens.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/novens.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}