{"id":140,"date":"2025-01-27T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emrah.domains.skidmore.edu\/?p=140"},"modified":"2026-04-20T16:10:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:10:01","slug":"the-things-i-had-to-do-to-stay-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emrahjusufoski.com\/index.php\/the-things-i-had-to-do-to-stay-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"The Things I Had to Do to Stay Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Survival isn\u2019t pretty. It\u2019s not some heroic battle\u2014it\u2019s doing whatever it takes when there\u2019s no other choice. At sixteen, abandoned and alone, I learned that quickly. I\u2019ve made decisions I won\u2019t explain, not because I\u2019m ashamed, but because most people wouldn\u2019t understand. Survival isn\u2019t dignified; it\u2019s messy, brutal, and relentless. But I am still here. And that is everything. If you\u2019re fighting to hold on, keep going. The pain won\u2019t last forever, but your strength will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[36,29,42,40,34,41,31,38,39,32,35,33,30,37,43],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-burning-down-the-past","tag-abandonment","tag-chosenfamily","tag-growth","tag-hardtruths","tag-healing","tag-keepgoing","tag-lgbtq","tag-mentalhealth","tag-rebuilding","tag-resilience","tag-selfworth","tag-strength","tag-survival","tag-survivor","tag-unbreakable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrahjusufoski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrahjusufoski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrahjusufoski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrahjusufoski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrahjusufoski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/emrahjusufoski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"https:\/\/emrahjusufoski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrahjusufoski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrahjusufoski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrahjusufoski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrahjusufoski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}