{"id":463,"date":"2002-12-16T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-16T10:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.wordpress.com\/2002\/12\/16\/english-journal-assignment-on-fear\/"},"modified":"2002-12-16T10:32:00","modified_gmt":"2002-12-16T10:32:00","slug":"english-journal-assignment-on-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/2002\/12\/english-journal-assignment-on-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"English Journal Assignment on Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Julie has dreams and aspirations. As a member of the cheerleading team and a coordinator of lots of local parties, she&#8217;s quite submerged into the social scene. She has a great boyfriend on the football team, a loving supporting family, and is known well by vendors at the mall.<\/p>\n<p>She knows that none of this can be taken away. She knows her life is set &#8211; summers spent tanning on the beach, winters spend shopping and throwing snowballs in her knew fleece sweatshirt &#8211; but what if something goes wrong?<\/p>\n<p>Every day, she wakes up trembling from nightmares. In her dreams, her life is consistently ruined. She gains ten pounds after failing to resist a pint of ice cream. Her strapless dress falls off at the prom. She maxes out her credit card. Her SUV runs out of gas on the freeway almost a mile from her house!<\/p>\n<p>Julie is sure that if any of this happens to her, her life will be ruined. Of course, the thoughts of the death of a family member, the onslaught of poverty, the development of some fatal disease, or getting involved in a car crash zoom right by her &#8211; she is not scared of those things. They only happen in movies.<\/p>\n<p>Which reminds her! If she doesn&#8217;t wear her new shoes to the premiere of Sweet Home Alabama, she&#8217;s ruined!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julie has dreams and aspirations. As a member of the cheerleading team and a coordinator of lots of local parties, she&#8217;s quite submerged into the social scene. She has a great boyfriend on the football team, a loving supporting family, and is known well by vendors at the mall. She knows that none of this&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/2002\/12\/english-journal-assignment-on-fear\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English Journal Assignment on Fear<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}