{"id":2382,"date":"2008-10-01T23:39:25","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T06:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2382"},"modified":"2008-10-01T23:39:25","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T06:39:25","slug":"in-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2382","title":{"rendered":"In pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a moment while enduring long dull pain that you decide <i>no more<\/i>.  You think, <i>This darkness isn&#8217;t for me, let&#8217;s go.<\/i>  Then you reach for some relief.  Maybe the rope.  A footing, something to grasp.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe you get used to it.  You start thinking everyone has this dull, aching pain.  Is that why there are tears so often in people&#8217;s eyes?  The pain inside us?<\/p>\n<p>Or perhaps you believe you deserved it.  After all, your karma wasn&#8217;t starbright.  You had the baddies following you and now is the time to serve.<\/p>\n<p>In pain, I have found is the most awakening moments.  At least, I stop looking down to the graveled ground.  Instead, I look around wildly and in passing, I notice the deep blue sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a moment while enduring long dull pain that you decide no more. You think, This darkness isn&#8217;t for me, let&#8217;s go. Then you reach for some relief. Maybe the rope. A footing, something to grasp. Or maybe you get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2382\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}