{"id":164,"date":"2012-04-24T15:38:46","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T23:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2012-04-24T15:41:57","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T23:41:57","slug":"despair-and-acceptance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"Despair and Acceptance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the deal: I am closing the studio at the end of the summer if I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t cover the costs of the studio throughout the summer (e.g. the $1,460 monthly lease payment) with studio-based income.   Last year I emptied my joint savings account to keep it open, this year even though I am teaching, running the studio and working part-time, I am struggling to just pay personal bills and the financial stress is affecting my mental and physical heath.  This cannot go on for me anymore.   <\/p>\n<p>I have pretty much given up.  Everything I try to do lately seems to fall apart.  I almost never cry, but right now my eyes are puffy and swollen from spending the last 30 minutes sobbing on the couch.  It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all too much for me any and I really give up.  <\/p>\n<p>Unless I get some kind of GINORMOUS sign from the Universe to do otherwise, I will most likely be closing the studio, re-joining the regular work force and taking a complete break from all dance in the fall.  <\/p>\n<p>There was more to this, but I decided to edit it out since it was quite personal and would have pointed fingers at those people I am feeling very betrayed and disappointed by lately.  It was cathartic enough to just write it out, no need to share with the entire world.  <\/p>\n<p>Acceptance, or rather, I&#8217;m too tired to fight anymore. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the deal: I am closing the studio at the end of the summer if I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t cover the costs of the studio throughout the summer (e.g. the $1,460 monthly lease payment) with studio-based income. Last year I emptied &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/?p=164\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}