{"entry":[{"id":"29633207","hash":"c93ca8111720a81af08e0b996c7c02a9","requestHash":"runningfromhellwithel","profileUrl":"http:\/\/gravatar.com\/runningfromhellwithel","preferredUsername":"runningfromhellwithel","thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/1.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c93ca8111720a81af08e0b996c7c02a9","photos":[{"value":"http:\/\/1.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c93ca8111720a81af08e0b996c7c02a9","type":"thumbnail"},{"value":"http:\/\/1.gravatar.com\/userimage\/29633207\/07d0404fbe748e20d93eee8d25238288"},{"value":"http:\/\/0.gravatar.com\/userimage\/29633207\/38620aa92b281008214b78f123815cae"},{"value":"http:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/userimage\/29633207\/e7ea2a5e27dc5b5accc93707f06f0d7c"}],"name":{"givenName":"El","familyName":"Farris","formatted":"El Farris"},"displayName":"Running from Hell with El","aboutMe":"My essence is captured by the mythical Phoenix, who rose from the ashes and was reborn. I have walked a difficult path to get here, but with three children on my back, the future has never looked brighter.\nHonestly, this isn\u2019t something I planned out or anything. I don\u2019t plan. I don\u2019t lay my clothes out for tomorrow or make meal menus a week in advance and calendars confuse me. But I was thinking as I was running the other day about heaven and hell and trouble. I find trouble; I make trouble; I get in trouble; I get troubled; I make everyone else troubled. I\u2019m trouble.\nI sniff out trouble with the inevitability of a kid tossing a tantrum after too much birthday. Even as an adult attending church, I cannot contain snickering and inappropriate giggles.\nWhat else do you need to know about me? Well, I run. I\u2019ve been running since I turned 14. A lot of abused girls put on weight as a protective instinct and it worked pretty well for a time, but carrying around extra weight is a burden that I didn\u2019t like shouldering. So I went on one of those diets and started to run and I\u2019ve been running since. Whenever I stop running, I land in a lot of trouble.\nI ran through a childhood that could well be described as hell. I ran through major depressive episodes and often teetered one step from the edge of a breakdown.  Through running, I held onto my sanity, my life and whatever belief in God I\u2019ve managed to cobble together. Each step I take, no matter how physically painful, draws me a shade closer into my better angels.\nAnd the steps have become painful over the years, which is how I earned the nickname Phoenix. Some mornings I feel like I\u2019ve been run over by a bus and the truth is, I was. I survived a collision with a metro bus, and it\u2019s fair to say that the accident fucked me up. And yet I keep rising from the pyre of a burning fire and as I run I realize that whatever hell is or isn\u2019t, as long as I keep rising, my spirit will never die.\n\u00a9 December 2, 2011 E. L. Farris.","currentLocation":"Virginia","emails":[{"primary":"true","value":"farrisburke@cox.net"}],"accounts":[{"domain":"blogger.com","display":"blogger.com","url":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/15852928942787923550","userid":"15852928942787923550","verified":"true","shortname":"blogger"},{"domain":"facebook.com","display":"facebook.com","url":"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100000611011234","username":"facebook.com","verified":"true","shortname":"facebook"}],"urls":[{"value":"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Running-from-Hell-with-El\/224004687665135","title":"Running from Hell with El"}]}]}