{"id":245,"date":"2026-07-26T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonesingforthejourney.com\/journal\/?p=245"},"modified":"2026-08-20T22:08:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T22:08:40","slug":"the-plan-changed-the-purpose-didnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonesingforthejourney.com\/journal\/the-plan-changed-the-purpose-didnt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Plan Changed. The Purpose Didn\u2019t."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We had plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Retirement. Travel. Adventures. Places we wanted to see and things we assumed we had plenty of time to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then cancer changed the calendar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a while, it was easy to focus on everything that had been interrupted. But eventually we began to understand something important:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A changed plan does not have to mean a lost purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe the road looks different now. Maybe some destinations have changed. Maybe we have to travel more slowly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But there is still life ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are still people to love, stories to tell, places to go, and hope to share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Cancer changed our plans. It didn\u2019t get to steal our purpose.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had plans. Retirement. Travel. Adventures. Places we wanted to see and things we assumed we had plenty of time to do. Then cancer changed the calendar. For\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[26,29,23,40,39],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-roadside-reflections","tag-ask-one-more-question","tag-cancer-journey","tag-cancer-treatment","tag-fulltime-rv-travel","tag-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonesingforthejourney.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonesingforthejourney.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonesingforthejourney.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonesingforthejourney.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonesingforthejourney.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jonesingforthejourney.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"https:\/\/jonesingforthejourney.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonesingforthejourney.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonesingforthejourney.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonesingforthejourney.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonesingforthejourney.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}