{"id":418,"date":"2020-10-18T14:40:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T14:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serenity4me.net\/?p=418"},"modified":"2024-07-18T03:17:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T03:17:59","slug":"shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serenity4me.net\/index.php\/2020\/10\/18\/shoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lois W., the wife of Bill W., co-founder of AA, says in her story, &#8216;After a while I began to wonder why I was not as happy as I ought to be since the one thing I had been yearning for all my married life had come to pass. Then one Sunday Bill asked me if I was ready to go to the meeting with him. To my own astonishment, as well as his, I burst forth with, &#8220;Damn your old meetings!&#8221; and threw a shoe as hard as I could.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/serenity4me.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/throwing-shoe.jpg?resize=400%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"woman throwing a shoe\" class=\"wp-image-422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/serenity4me.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/throwing-shoe.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/serenity4me.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/throwing-shoe.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When a horse throws a shoe, his rider can take him to a blacksmith; when Lois threw her shoe she had no place to go; she felt she should apply the AA spiritual program of recovery to her own problems. Much later with the help of Anne B. and others, she started the AI-Anon Family Groups for people who don&#8217;t drink but who throw things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lois W., the wife of Bill W., co-founder of AA, says in her story, &#8216;After a while I began to wonder why I was not as happy as I ought to be since the one thing I had been yearning for all my married life had come to pass. Then one Sunday Bill asked me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-program","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/serenity4me.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shoes2-e1722561006296.jpg?fit=250%2C155&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serenity4me.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serenity4me.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serenity4me.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serenity4me.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serenity4me.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/serenity4me.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/serenity4me.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serenity4me.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serenity4me.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serenity4me.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serenity4me.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}