{"id":240,"date":"2020-01-02T18:20:19","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T18:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/makeyourmark.today\/story\/?p=240"},"modified":"2020-01-02T18:36:02","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T18:36:02","slug":"20-years-sober","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makeyourmark.today\/story\/20-years-sober\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Years Sober"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is James, and I am a recovering alcoholic. My addictions started in junior high. Within three years I had been in a mental hospital, locked up in juvenile hall. Placed on probation, tracking, and diversion. I was kicked out of school my freshman year for truancy and kicked out of my house shortly after. I landed in my first treatment center by 17. By the time I was 21 I had two DUIs and was living on the streets. I landed in another mental hospital a day before thanksgiving in 1999. I was at a point of desperation to either get sober or I was going to buy a gun and kill myself. By the grace of God I did not have to do that. My sobriety date is Feb 20th 2000 which means I am getting ready to celebrate twenty years. I belong to a 12 step program and sponsor guys new in recovery I am involved with at risk kids in prison and work with adults in an out patient program. I speak at schools on recovery and addictions. Feel free to email me jgillespie76220@gmail.com<\/p>\n\t\t<div class=\"wpulike wpulike-default \" ><div class=\"wp_ulike_general_class wp_ulike_is_not_liked\"><button type=\"button\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-ulike-id=\"240\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-ulike-nonce=\"afd968c7f2\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-ulike-type=\"likeThis\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-ulike-display-likers=\"1\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-ulike-disable-pophover=\"0\"\n\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"wp_ulike_btn wp_ulike_put_image wp_likethis_240\"><\/button><span class=\"count-box\">8<\/span>\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is James, and I am a recovering alcoholic. My addictions started in junior high. Within three years I had been in a mental hospital, locked up in juvenile hall. Placed on probation, tracking, and diversion. I was kicked out of school my freshman year for truancy and kicked out of my house shortly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_liked":["0"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeyourmark.today\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeyourmark.today\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeyourmark.today\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeyourmark.today\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeyourmark.today\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/makeyourmark.today\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/makeyourmark.today\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeyourmark.today\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeyourmark.today\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeyourmark.today\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}