{"id":18718,"date":"2012-03-06T08:39:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T13:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=18718"},"modified":"2012-03-06T08:39:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T13:39:04","slug":"tough-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/tough-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18719\" style=\"width: 124px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18719\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18719\" title=\"no bandaid\" src=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/no-bandaid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"114\" height=\"144\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18719\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">No more bandaids - fix it<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A friend&#8217;s son, mid-30\u2019s, has been in and out of rehab (and jail) \u00a0for oxycodone the past few years. \u00a0 \u00a0 He\u2019s been clean a year and it&#8217;s been a long road, with him living in his parents&#8217; home. \u00a0 A month ago he wanted to sign himself back into treatment and asked his parents to meet him at Circles of \u00a0Care for intake. \u00a0He never showed, they went back \u00a0home to find he\u2019s robbed the house of $40,000 of his mother\u2019s diamond jewelry, plus broke into the safe and took thousands in cash. \u00a0These are not people who have much, so this was all they had. \u00a0 And this, after a year being clean. \u00a0His mom is heartbroken but has finally wised up enough that they filed a police report and found some of the jewelry at local pawn shops. \u00a0He\u2019s been charged with grand theft and trafficking in stolen property. \u00a0He has prior arrests for drug possession, theft, trafficking and felony violation of probation. \u00a0He&#8217;ll be given much time to think and decide how he wants to spend the rest of his life. \u00a0 Prayers for the family who has to be strong at times like this.<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/tough-love\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Tough Love&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/tough-love\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/tough-love\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/tough-love\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=Tough%20Love&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/tough-love\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend&#8217;s son, mid-30\u2019s, has been in and out of rehab (and jail) \u00a0for oxycodone the past few years. \u00a0 \u00a0 He\u2019s been clean a year and it&#8217;s been a long road, with him living in his parents&#8217; home. \u00a0 A month ago he wanted to sign himself back into treatment and asked his parents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18718"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18721,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18718\/revisions\/18721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}