{"id":9166,"date":"2013-08-23T02:14:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T18:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=9166"},"modified":"2013-09-03T12:00:50","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T04:00:50","slug":"phobias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=9166","title":{"rendered":"Phobias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I read definitions of Phobia:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span class=\"st\">A <em>phobia<\/em> is an irrational and excessive fear of an object or situation. These fears can interfere with an individual&#8217;s life and lead to considerable anxiety and stress<wbr><\/wbr>\u00a0<b>&#8230;&#8221;<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span class=\"st\">A persistent, abnormal, and irrational fear of a specific thing or situation that compels one to avoid it, despite the awareness and reassurance that it is not\u00a0<b>&#8230;&#8221;<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"st\"><b> I w<\/b><b>as, like, hey, sounds like most SHC members&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.fear of writing\/chatting<\/b><b>.\u00a0 Kekekekeeee.<\/b><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Seriously, darlings, we are in this club not just to attend activities\/gatherings etc, we are also here to make frens and to know others, let us hear your thoughts, views, experience etc.<\/p>\n<p>So, tell us your phobias.\u00a0 I shall start with mine.<\/p>\n<p>I was totally, totally petrified of cats when I was young but thank goodness I have overcome it.\u00a0 To cut a long story short, I sat ten feet away from a fren&#8217;s cat and the cat seemed to know I was scared of her and she approached me very slowly while my heart was pounding to death.\u00a0 Finally she climbed on my lap, again extra slowly, laid down and fell asleep.<\/p>\n<p>I thought I would die but surprisingly, my panic gradually subsided and I even stroked her!\u00a0 From then on, my fear of cats slowly disappeared; thanks to this sweet, adorable cat.<\/p>\n<p>Your turn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I read definitions of Phobia: &#8220;A phobia is an irrational and excessive fear of an object or situation. These fears can interfere with an individual&#8217;s life and lead to considerable anxiety and stress\u00a0&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;A persistent, abnormal, and irrational fear of a specific thing or situation that compels one to avoid it, despite the awareness &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=9166\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Phobias&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9166"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9435,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9166\/revisions\/9435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}