{"id":286,"date":"2007-01-22T08:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-22T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ocbenji.com\/blog\/?p=286"},"modified":"2010-04-13T22:03:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T03:03:19","slug":"there-and-back-again-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/22\/there-and-back-again-2\/","title":{"rendered":"There and Back Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There and Back Again<\/p>\n<p>As I struggle to look up that staircase too many times traveled<br \/>\nTwisted knots of memories become tangled and unraveled<br \/>\nFlashes of good times and bad,<br \/>\nSome funny some sad<br \/>\nSome happy some mad<br \/>\nAnother feeling just added, and I smile just glad<br \/>\nThey say you can never go home, I guess living is believing<br \/>\nAnd this makes the second home I&#8217;d be leaving<br \/>\nI shake my head and scramble the picture again<br \/>\nI pick an image out the stack and try to understand<br \/>\nWhat went wrong? I pick another, what went right?<br \/>\nThen I start to put it together and readjust my sight<br \/>\nI want the root of the problem, but I keep getting the leaves<br \/>\nI need to get to the heart of the matter not just button the sleeves<br \/>\nMy foot got a little too heavy, I went too fast<br \/>\nI lost control,\u00a0bounced, skidded, and crashed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There and Back Again As I struggle to look up that staircase too many times traveled Twisted knots of memories become tangled and unraveled Flashes of good times and bad, Some funny some sad Some happy some mad Another feeling just added, and I smile just glad They say you can never go home, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338,339,335],"tags":[114],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-of-benji","category-poems","category-random-thoughts","tag-rash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}