{"id":43,"date":"2005-05-22T04:20:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-22T09:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ocbenji.com\/blog\/?p=43"},"modified":"2005-05-22T04:20:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-22T09:20:00","slug":"the-little-one-and-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/22\/the-little-one-and-i\/","title":{"rendered":"The Little One and I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She does what she has to, to keep things going<br \/>\nA brave one she is, in the darkness to keep glowing<br \/>\nShe won&#8217;t let me fail even if its my intent<br \/>\nHer heart is strong but I&#8217;ve managed a dent<br \/>\nShe lets me go to get myself right<br \/>\nShe lies next to me but still far away every night<br \/>\nFreedom as always she gives me, to make my own way<br \/>\nSet me free to explore, but I just want to stay<br \/>\nI have much to do before my heartbeats stop the rhythm<br \/>\nI love her too much, too much to be forgiven<br \/>\nAccident or not I don&#8217;t deserve her, and truthfully never did<br \/>\nBut I guess all thats changed now that we have a kid<br \/>\nBut he doesn&#8217;t sway my mind when it comes to her<br \/>\nI need her for her and the want side does concur<br \/>\nI may not be able to express it or even speak it out<br \/>\nBut thru words I can go from a whisper to shouting it out<br \/>\nShe says that she will wait for me, but is that fair<br \/>\nI want her more that anything, nobody else can even compare<br \/>\nMy eyes have gone cold again and she likes the warmth<br \/>\nI guess I have no choice but follow my compass north<br \/>\nHow can I show her, how can I make her feel this affection<br \/>\nCan anybody help, Can anybody point me in the right direction?<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Benji:<br \/>\n&#8220;Love is kinda like quicksand, the more you fight it, the quicker it pulls you in&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She does what she has to, to keep things going A brave one she is, in the darkness to keep glowing She won&#8217;t let me fail even if its my intent Her heart is strong but I&#8217;ve managed a dent She lets me go to get myself right She lies next to me but still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[135,18],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-ben","tag-the-daily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","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=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}