{"id":222,"date":"2009-01-01T21:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tdgsafety.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/01\/new-years\/"},"modified":"2009-01-01T21:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T02:05:00","slug":"new-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/2009\/01\/01\/new-years\/","title":{"rendered":"New Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Years is special for me- it is my Mother&#8217;s time, spiritually (And how often are you going to hear me use<em> that<\/em> word in public?) A time for rebirth.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s <em>exactly <\/em>what last night was.<\/p>\n<p>I terrorized a lovely stranger, watching her shake and stammer and ask the dark for her Daddy. Delightful.Even more&nbsp; so to tell her that her Daddy was not here, it was just <em>us<\/em>. That there was no safety net, and no place to go but <em>down<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>I was among my closest pack and some friends, and spent the heart of my evening leaving scarred bootprints in a mind that wanted them, needed them. It&#8217;s been years since I felt this whole, this <strong>alive<\/strong>. I forgot all about my health, my leg, my limitations. They were gone, and I was doing what I was <strong>made<\/strong> to do. I was content, sunning myself like a great black snake digesting it&#8217;s prey on a hot rock. Quiet. Content. At peace.<\/p>\n<p><em>Again. At last.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Coming home I found a note from someone who still, after time and distance and a lot of pain, holds me in the regard I hold most priceless, and who I will <strong>always <\/strong>miss, every day. <\/p>\n<p><em>&quot;What rough Beast, his hour rolled &#8217;round at last, slouches toward Bethlehem, waiting to be born?<\/em>&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Too late.<\/p>\n<p><em>He&#8217;s here.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Years is special for me- it is my Mother&#8217;s time, spiritually (And how often are you going to hear me use that word in public?) A time for rebirth. That&#8217;s exactly what last night was. I terrorized a lovely stranger, watching her shake and stammer and ask the dark for her Daddy. Delightful.Even more&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}