{"id":324,"date":"2003-12-04T21:22:47","date_gmt":"2003-12-05T02:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/?p=324"},"modified":"2003-12-04T21:22:47","modified_gmt":"2003-12-05T02:22:47","slug":"324","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>why is that dumb picture of me still up?  I don&#8217;t know.  but it has been there way too long.<\/p>\n<p>I just got out of work.  It was long and annoying.<\/p>\n<p>I get to buy plane tickets either tonight or tomorrow so i can come home for Christmas.  For those wondering, I will be arriving on the 20th, probably in the afternoon sometime.<\/p>\n<p>I got studio time reserved for my show.  Now all I have to do is get crew together, which i will do tomorrow.  oh yeah, and write up a script.<\/p>\n<p>I have to go to chapel tomorrow, so i cna&#8217;t sleep in&#8230; but&#8230; it&#8217;s either that or pay a $20 chapel fine.  While sleep is great, it is not worth $20.<\/p>\n<p>Here is another poem&#8230; btw Luke, what you wrote in your comments in regards to the other poem is correct, but is only part of the entire meaning of the poem&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>so anyway, he is this one, from the same book&#8230;.  it comes at the very end&#8230;:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On this very day I fell apart<br \/>Before Heaven<br \/>On a sandy knee<br \/>Knowing that the desert<br \/>Isn&#8217;t where I want to be<br \/>I have been here long enough<br \/>Father<br \/>I am ready for the oasis<br \/>To become reality<br \/>To drink the wine, the water<br \/>Straight from your cup<br \/>Instead of only dreaming<br \/>Of the day<br \/>The rain will come<br \/>I would like to ask you all<br \/>To forgive me<br \/>For giving in so many times<br \/>Time and time again<br \/>I just don&#8217;t have any strength left<br \/>To continue with the burden on my own<br \/>But I know<br \/>In the end<br \/>The only thing worth fighting for<br \/>Aching for<br \/>Debating for<br \/>Screaming for<br \/>Awaking in the morning for&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Is Heaven<br \/>And the friend who awaits us<br \/>Let these pages serve as a reminder<br \/>That the deepest pit is only a lesson<br \/>To prove that eternity<br \/>Is on the horizon&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>-&#8220;And Last, But Not Least&#8230;,&#8221; by Andrew Schwab<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>why is that dumb picture of me still up? I don&#8217;t know. but it has been there way too long. I just got out of work. It was long and annoying. I get to buy plane tickets either tonight or tomorrow so i can come home for Christmas. For those wondering, I will be arriving &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/?p=324\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}