{"id":1378,"date":"2017-07-17T14:18:13","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T19:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theauthorschair.com\/shopping\/?post_type=jetpack-testimonial&#038;p=1378"},"modified":"2017-07-17T16:54:59","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T21:54:59","slug":"josiah-c","status":"publish","type":"jetpack-testimonial","link":"https:\/\/www.theauthorschair.com\/shopping\/testimonial\/josiah-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Josiah C. &#8211; Reading your books saved my life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">A couple of years ago I was extremely depressed to the point of cutting and suicide. I&#8217;m still depressed but I have since stopped cutting and thinking of suicide. I even attempted it a couple of times. I am naturally a loner and shy, so it is taking a lot of effort for me to contact you. I have very little friends and a lot of enemies.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Most people are scared of me because I can manipulate their feelings to be that of intimidation or fear. Kind of a self preservation thing. I attended two of your writing classes, not that you&#8217;d remember. \u00a0I have a severe bone disease that keeps me from doing most things and makes me look like a freak. I am bullied on a regular basis.\u00a0\u00a0I&#8217;ve done things I&#8217;m not proud of and can&#8217;t admit to anyone. Now that you know some of my background and story, I will get to the reason I contacted you.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Reading your books saved my life. Echos from the edge\u00a0helped me the most because of kelly and all that she overcame. I&#8217;m sure you get this a lot but some of your characters remind me of myself. Mostly in a bad way. Each obstacle they overcome helps me to overcome one in my life. There are many reasons I decided to write to you, even though I&#8217;m not sure you will read this. I heard you liked to hear from your fans and readers.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">My name is Josiah and i&#8217;m a sixteen year old guy in case you were wondering. If you want to get in contact with me just email me back or add me on facebook, I have a couple of questions. I assume if you got this far you took the time to read the whole thing through, which I&#8217;m glad about. This isn&#8217;t the longest thing so it would be easy to read. My parents don&#8217;t know that I&#8217;m still depressed and struggling,even if they did I&#8217;m not sure they could do anything.. Do you have any advice to help me along the way?\u00a0Thanks for reading!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago I was extremely depressed to the point of cutting and suicide. I&#8217;m still depressed but I have since stopped cutting and thinking of suicide. I even attempted it a couple of times. I am naturally a loner and shy, so it is taking a lot of effort for me to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-1378","jetpack-testimonial","type-jetpack-testimonial","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theauthorschair.com\/shopping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-testimonial\/1378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theauthorschair.com\/shopping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-testimonial"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theauthorschair.com\/shopping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/jetpack-testimonial"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theauthorschair.com\/shopping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-testimonial\/1378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1572,"href":"https:\/\/www.theauthorschair.com\/shopping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-testimonial\/1378\/revisions\/1572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theauthorschair.com\/shopping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}