{"id":608,"date":"2002-08-08T20:47:53","date_gmt":"2002-08-09T00:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/?p=608"},"modified":"2002-08-08T20:47:53","modified_gmt":"2002-08-09T00:47:53","slug":"608","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spent the majority of the day playing guitar, oddly enough.  It&#8217;s crazy, I&#8217;ve been having like real &#8220;on&#8221; days for guitar recently.  Like today&#8230; if I didn&#8217;t know better&#8230; I would have almost thought that I actually could play.  We&#8217;ll see if it lasts.<BR><BR>I leave for the beach on saturday, and then after spending a week there it&#8217;s back to school.  Joy.  Actually I am pretty happy about going back to good &#8216;ol Lakeland.  Will be nice to see ppl down there again, though of course I will miss the people up here.  Seems like the summer went by really fast.<BR><BR>Anyway, also over the last couple of days I have been conflicted about some stuff involving a friend I haven&#8217;t seen in awhile.  Not sure why it suddenly came up in my mind, but for some reason it did.<BR><BR>Anyway, it is getting close to being time to go&#8230; need to go hang out with people, as tonight and tomorrow are my last chances to before leaving for school.<BR><BR>Godspeed.<BR><BR>(oh yeah.. and&#8230; another Switchfoot song&#8230;. this happens to be one of my favorites..)<BR><BR>&#8220;Everything I know<BR>Tells me she&#8217;s everything that I could hope for.<BR>Everything I know<BR>Tells me I can&#8217;t let her walk away.<BR><BR>I took my time to find the words.<BR>I hoped she&#8217;d feel the same.<BR><BR>&#8216;Cause I want someone to share my smile<BR>To share the pain<BR>To be there when the sea turns gray<BR>To share the joy<BR>For better or worse<BR><BR>And I thought that it might have been her.<BR><BR>I wonder if she knows<BR>The way I saw her soul light up my life<BR>I wonder if she knows<BR>Of the pain I feel tonight<BR><BR>I took my time to find the words.<BR>I hoped she&#8217;d feel the same.<BR><BR>&#8216;Cause I want someone to share my smile<BR>To share the pain<BR>To be there when the sea turns gray<BR>To share the joy<BR>For better or worse<BR><BR>And I thought that it might have been her.&#8221;<BR><BR>-&#8220;Might Have Ben Hur,&#8221; by Switchfoot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spent the majority of the day playing guitar, oddly enough. It&#8217;s crazy, I&#8217;ve been having like real &#8220;on&#8221; days for guitar recently. Like today&#8230; if I didn&#8217;t know better&#8230; I would have almost thought that I actually could play. We&#8217;ll see if it lasts.I leave for the beach on saturday, and then after spending a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/?p=608\" 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\/608"}],"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=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}