{"id":544,"date":"2008-03-30T21:49:37","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T03:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ocbenji.com\/blog\/?p=544"},"modified":"2008-03-31T07:00:54","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T13:00:54","slug":"a-ring-with-some-gold-on-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/30\/a-ring-with-some-gold-on-the-end\/","title":{"rendered":"A Ring with a Touch of Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought of you alot today as I put on the ring you wore.  Everything was alot different back then.  I actually had you.  Back then we made each other happy without effort, without even trying.  Even after how things ended I still wouldn&#8217;t change a thing.  You were right, it was short but very powerful and I&#8217;m happy to have shared that small piece of my life with you.  Its one of those times in life thats so perfectly perfect that you know a person hasn&#8217;t really lived until they experienced it.<\/p>\n<p>I reminisce about the ring I now wear.  About how I picked it, why I picked it, and the feeling that came over me when I first saw it on you.  It was cold outside that day but you wouldn&#8217;t know it as warm as I felt on the inside.  I was happy that day, it was a good day.  A touch of gold on iron never looked so perfect and symbolic about how I felt about you.  I never really explained to you why I wore that ring and why I gave you one. It meant&#8230;..<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>That everything around me seemed normal and ordinary until I got to you, that touch of gold.  I gave you one to remind you that my days with you were like that ring, and I would go through all the boring ordinary just to had a touch of extraordinary with you.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think I&#8217;m going to keep wearing the ring&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-545\" href=\"http:\/\/ocbenji.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=545\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ocbenji.com\/blog\/\/\/mnt\/w0504\/d33\/s27\/b02d0345\/www\/ocbenji.com\/\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/colder-by-the-lake-150.jpg\"> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought of you alot today as I put on the ring you wore. Everything was alot different back then. I actually had you. Back then we made each other happy without effort, without even trying. Even after how things ended I still wouldn&#8217;t change a thing. You were right, it was short but very [&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":[135,263],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-ben","tag-colder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","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=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}