{"id":130,"date":"2004-12-14T15:01:51","date_gmt":"2004-12-14T22:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/?p=128"},"modified":"2004-12-14T15:01:51","modified_gmt":"2004-12-14T22:01:51","slug":"in-a-handbasket-s6-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2004\/12\/14\/in-a-handbasket-s6-please\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2026in a handbasket, \u201cS6 please.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"storycontent\">\n<p>Reopening wounds that never really closed.<br \/> Unintentional, true, but it doesn&rsquo;t make me much<br \/> less of a bastard.  I should have known better.<\/p>\n<p>Walking away each night with tears in my wake.<br \/> It&rsquo;s no way to live.  We try our best not to hurt<br \/> the ones we care for, and in the end, they&rsquo;re the ones<br \/> we hurt the most; the most open to us, fragile.<\/p>\n<p><em>Treat love like a butterfly&rsquo;s wings: untouched.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The human dynamic; so complicated.<\/p>\n<p>Thinking about perspectives.  As we grow older,<br \/> we gain more perspective on life.  Things that would<br \/> be bombs in our youth are just little raindrops<br \/> as we&rsquo;ve gained experience.  Not to say we don&rsquo;t have<br \/> our own bombs dropped, now and again, no matter how<br \/> solid and wise we think we&rsquo;ve become; but they occur less,<br \/> and we can move past them faster.  But life can&rsquo;t be<br \/> all wine and roses.  If we&rsquo;re to gain perspective (which<br \/> is in a sense, just wisdom), we&rsquo;ve got to have some bombs<br \/> fall in our lives.  We have to struggle, and we have to move past.<br \/> Otherwise, we&rsquo;re just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiosek.com\/dostoevsky\/library\/underground.txt\">piano stops<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reopening wounds that never really closed. Unintentional, true, but it doesn&rsquo;t make me much less of a bastard. I should have known better. Walking away each night with tears in my wake. It&rsquo;s no way to live. We try our best not to hurt the ones we care for, and in the end, they&rsquo;re the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}