{"id":1158,"date":"2010-05-08T01:44:57","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T09:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2010-05-08T01:44:57","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T09:44:57","slug":"faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/2010\/05\/08\/faith\/","title":{"rendered":"faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Jerry&#8217;s Pond will always be there. Girls come and go, but memories usually stick around for a while.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been reading this book entitled <em>Hindsight<\/em>. I&#8217;ve got a few other non-fiction books half finished as well, and when I read <em>Where Cool Water Flow<\/em> this last couple of days I realized that the other non-fiction I&#8217;m reading is relatively hard. The latter is stories from a Maine guide from the Grand Lake Stream region of Maine while the others are nearly academic works.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose I need to remind myself to have faith that everyone will work out alright, and that I don&#8217;t need anyone special to be happy with life and who I am. While a bunch of friends sent me birthday wishes today, a handful took the time to write me a note and I had at least three people tell me today that they were glad I was born. Some were joking, some were serious, but I appreciated it. I was thinking today about how unimportant I am to M, and the clarity that lens can give me. Being back in Seattle is strange, and while it shouldn&#8217;t take too long to find the city groove again, I&#8217;m hoping that I can keep some of the burden at bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry&#8217;s Pond will always be there. Girls come and go, but memories usually stick around for a while. I&#8217;ve been reading this book entitled Hindsight. I&#8217;ve got a few other non-fiction books half finished as well, and when I read Where Cool Water Flow this last couple of days I realized that the other non-fiction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1159,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions\/1159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}