{"id":2862,"date":"2009-12-06T07:24:12","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T13:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/?p=2862"},"modified":"2010-04-06T16:54:38","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T21:54:38","slug":"where-were-you-when-i-needed-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/06\/where-were-you-when-i-needed-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Were You When I Needed You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Where Were You When I Needed You?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Where were you when I needed you?<br \/>\nWhen my heart fell apart and I needed the glue<br \/>\nWhen I stood cold and alone<br \/>\nYou didn&#8217;t answer your phone<br \/>\nWhen nothing seemed to dull the pain<br \/>\nI sat and I cried and sobbed your name<br \/>\nI needed you bad, worse than ever before<br \/>\nTears in my eyes, everything is a blur<br \/>\nI wanted to go find you but didn&#8217;t know where to look<br \/>\nSo I wandered around, empty inside crying while I shook<br \/>\nYou said you would be there when it all came crashing down<br \/>\nI laughed at your promise, but now my smirk is a frown<br \/>\nI call again with hope in my eyes<br \/>\nVoicemail again, I&#8217;m not surprised<br \/>\nWhere are you?  I need a shoulder to lean<br \/>\nSomebody to tell me the world isn&#8217;t so mean<br \/>\nA few kind words from somebody who cares<br \/>\nA beacon of kindness or at least a few flares<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll never trust again, this time I mean it<br \/>\nThe belief, the hope, bah!  Who needs it!<br \/>\nMe, myself, and I is all I need<br \/>\nA self-sufficient plant, I&#8217;m planting the seed<br \/>\nSo next time I&#8217;m down and I need a hand up<br \/>\nI won&#8217;t ask where you were, I&#8217;ll just stand up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where Were You When I Needed You? Where were you when I needed you? When my heart fell apart and I needed the glue When I stood cold and alone You didn&#8217;t answer your phone When nothing seemed to dull the pain I sat and I cried and sobbed your name I needed you bad, [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-of-benji","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862","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=2862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}