{"id":247,"date":"2008-02-03T10:14:44","date_gmt":"2008-02-03T15:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ocbenji.com\/blog\/?p=247"},"modified":"2008-02-03T10:14:44","modified_gmt":"2008-02-03T15:14:44","slug":"internal-conflicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/03\/internal-conflicts\/","title":{"rendered":"Internal Conflicts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought the latest Jill Scott CD and keep jamming to this one song of hers:<\/p>\n<p><em>Don&#8217;t feel no pity for me<br \/>\nCause I&#8217;m going through a couple things,<br \/>\nLife means change,<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s the way it goes,goes<br \/>\nAll my life I had a constant burning<br \/>\nA strong deep,desire<br \/>\nAn aching ambiguous,yearning,yearning,<br \/>\nyearning<\/p>\n<p>For something better<br \/>\nFor something bigger<br \/>\nFor something wider<br \/>\nFor something higher<br \/>\nAnd lots of regrets<br \/>\nCause I ain&#8217;t seem to found it yet<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been searching around the world<br \/>\nNever knowing what to expect<br \/>\nI get sad sometimes<br \/>\nYes I be mad sometimes<br \/>\nCause I&#8217;m out here on the grind<br \/>\nMaking mine<br \/>\nAnd I still can&#8217;t seem to find<br \/>\nWhat I&#8217;ve been looking for<br \/>\nOpened so many doors<br \/>\nFor real,yo<br \/>\nI just wanna be loved&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For one the beat is hot and Jill just rocks, but I can totally relate to those lyrics. I&#8217;ve achieved a lot in my life so far,\u00c2\u00a0 pretty successful, but there is one area in which there has been little success and that would be with romantic relationships. Which in the grand scheme of things for me is not a top priority at this time but I wouldn&#8217;t mind opening up to someone, but who? I am a little hestitant only because of previous experiences.\u00c2\u00a0 Because I clearly have no idea what I&#8217;m doing. I&#8217;m afraid to take chances anymore.<\/p>\n<p>I need a sign&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought the latest Jill Scott CD and keep jamming to this one song of hers: Don&#8217;t feel no pity for me Cause I&#8217;m going through a couple things, Life means change, That&#8217;s the way it goes,goes All my life I had a constant burning A strong deep,desire An aching ambiguous,yearning,yearning, yearning For something better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[112,39,110,111],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-internal-conflicts-i","tag-jill","tag-jill-scott","tag-making-mine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}