{"id":55604,"date":"2016-09-10T19:28:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T19:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/abc_elizabeth_vargas_and_her_story_of_anxiety_alcoholism_and_hope\/"},"modified":"2016-09-10T19:28:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T19:28:30","slug":"abc_elizabeth_vargas_and_her_story_of_anxiety_alcoholism_and_hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55604","title":{"rendered":"(ABC) Elizabeth Vargas and Her Story of Anxiety, Alcoholism and Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, when Elizabeth Vargas walks down the streets of New York City on a warm evening, passing wine bars filled with people enjoying glasses of wine, it\u2019s a very different experience for her than it once was.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t look at them and think, \u201d\u02dcI want one,\u2019\u201d\u009d Vargas said. \u201cBut I look at them and I think, \u201d\u02dcI miss that.\u2019 I miss that time when, you know, it felt so innocent and romantic. But that\u2019s just me romanticizing something that turned out to be really monstrous for me.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The veteran ABC News network anchor sat down with Diane Sawyer for a special edition of ABC News \u201c20\/20\u201d\u009d to talk for the first time about her long struggle with alcoholism and anxiety, and her recovery process.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/abc-news-anchor-elizabeth-vargas-long-battle-alcoholism\/story?id=41980399\">Read it all<\/a> (watching the video preferred).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, when Elizabeth Vargas walks down the streets of New York City on a warm evening, passing wine bars filled with people enjoying glasses of wine, it\u2019s a very different experience for her than it once was. \u201cI don\u2019t look<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55604\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,86,101,168,98,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-alcoholism","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}