{"id":172,"date":"2006-07-24T08:40:50","date_gmt":"2006-07-24T12:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/2006\/07\/24\/even-astronauts-have-down-days\/"},"modified":"2006-07-24T08:42:53","modified_gmt":"2006-07-24T12:42:53","slug":"even-astronauts-have-down-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/2006\/07\/24\/even-astronauts-have-down-days\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Even astronauts have down days&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the joys of being an easily irritable person with hugely varying mood swings is that what goes up must inevitably come down.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and I am coming down hard and I can feel it.  Post-Cornerstone-blues, unexpected work stress (this is supposed to be the calm part of the year), and a general feeling of unhappiness are all combining to wreak havoc on my psyche.  I&#8217;m not sure what&#8217;s worse, being depressed or having that sinking feeling that depression is about to onset.  The irony is I have all sorts of friends coming into my house this weekend when all I really want is to be alone.  I&#8217;m hoping I snap out of this before the week is over.  Is it sad that I&#8217;m actually looking forward to cleaning the bathrooms by myself in an empty house tonight?  Maybe that will be the cure to wanting to be alone for a while.<\/p>\n<p>How do you fight depression when it hasn&#8217;t hit yet, but you know it&#8217;s coming?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the joys of being an easily irritable person with hugely varying mood swings is that what goes up must inevitably come down. &#8230;and I am coming down hard and I can feel it. Post-Cornerstone-blues, unexpected work stress (this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/2006\/07\/24\/even-astronauts-have-down-days\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}