{"id":60,"date":"2019-01-05T07:37:53","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T14:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/painvalley.com\/?p=60"},"modified":"2020-03-04T20:03:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T03:03:32","slug":"welcome-to-living-with-chronic-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/painvalley.com\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Living with Chronic Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Living with chronic pain is one of the most difficult things a person can do in this life. Whether young or old, waking up every day to a life filled with physical pain can bring on a whole range of emotions \u2014 hopelessness, depression, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Living with chronic pain is something nobody should ever face in this lifetime. But often-times we don\u2019t have a choice. Much like our new blogger, Tracy Rydzy, MSW, LSW, who is hosting this new blog, <strong>Living with Chronic Pain<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI was working as a licensed social worker when an emergency spinal surgery 2 years ago changed my life and my career. I live with chronic pain and, as a result, I have taken my social work and writing skills, and made them into this blog. This blog is a humorous, informative, no-holds barred honest look at life with chronic pain, depression and disability.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Please give a warm Psych Central welcome to Tracy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living with chronic pain is one of the most difficult things a person can do in this life. Whether young or old, waking up every day to a life filled with physical pain can bring on a whole range of emotions \u2014 hopelessness, depression, and more. Living with chronic pain is something nobody should ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ankylosing-spondylitis","tag-dbtag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/painvalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/painvalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/painvalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/painvalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/painvalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/painvalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/painvalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/painvalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/painvalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/painvalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}