{"id":534,"date":"2008-03-28T05:57:11","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T11:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ocbenji.com\/blog\/?p=534"},"modified":"2011-05-19T10:41:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T15:41:39","slug":"longing-amazement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/28\/longing-amazement\/","title":{"rendered":"Longing Amazement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have the intense surges of longing.<br \/>\nNothing in particular, no one really in mind&#8230;but just this immense feeling that I should be somewhere else.<br \/>\nI feel like I have these pent up emotions that need to be expressed.<br \/>\nIf I were cut open they would spill out of me, and be the loudest boom of insane but quite lovely noise.<\/p>\n<p>I just feel so restless, and wish I could express them, before I lose them entirely.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m so tired of making excuses, so tired of myself being frustrated, and I can not wait for the release of my spirit.<\/p>\n<p>I just need some satisfaction in the fact I&#8217;m doing amazingly better than I did last year, and some validation that I am worth more than I felt before.<\/p>\n<p>Listening to music just excites me more and more.<br \/>\nI feel like any song could move me to tears, for no reason at all&#8230;.which it repeatedly has in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>My soul is weary to be free,<br \/>\nTo find it&#8217;s half,<br \/>\nBut in all the same to be whole.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have the intense surges of longing. Nothing in particular, no one really in mind&#8230;but just this immense feeling that I should be somewhere else. I feel like I have these pent up emotions that need to be expressed. If I were cut open they would spill out of me, and be the loudest boom [&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":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","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=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3200,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/3200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}