{"id":729,"date":"2002-04-10T21:34:53","date_gmt":"2002-04-11T01:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/?p=729"},"modified":"2002-04-10T21:34:53","modified_gmt":"2002-04-11T01:34:53","slug":"729","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/?p=729","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>I would like to dedicate this post to <A href=\"http:\/\/www.xanga.com\/starswithfeet\" target=_new>starswithfeet<\/A>, who recently has commented on more of my posts then people that I actually know.&nbsp; Thank you.<BR>And a note to my friends: you suck.&nbsp; Ok, not really, but starswithfeet is much cooler then all of you.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Now&#8230; on to the post \ud83d\ude09<\/P><br \/>\n<P>good old burn-outs&#8230;.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>nothing like weeks when your tired and have a lot of work to do and nothing is really going the way that you want it to.&nbsp; well, ok, some things are, but the bad things always overshadow the good&#8230;&nbsp;you know how it goes, you can be having a great day, one bad thing happens, and ruins the rest of it&#8230; and once you&#8217;re in a negative mindset it takes a good bit to get out of it.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>i&#8217;ve been pretty much on an up and down thing all week&#8230;. i have good points, i have bad points&#8230;.&nbsp; right now i&#8217;m sort of at a middle place.&nbsp; i wish there was something i could do about it, but for now, circumstances are completely out of my control.&nbsp; so i&#8217;m doing my best not to let circumstances get to me, but that&#8217;s a pretty hard thing.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Whenever I am having a bad day I try to think of this song&#8230; and interestingly enough, yesterday in chapel Dr. Rutland talked about this song and the story behind it&#8230; so that was cool&#8230; anyway, the guy that wrote it (I forget his name)&#8230;. wrote it shortly after his wife and children were killed in a shipwreck.&nbsp; He got on a ship traveling the same route shortly later, and wrote this upon reaching the spot where the ship his family was on went down:<\/P><br \/>\n<P>&#8220;When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,<BR>When sorrows like sea billows roll;<BR>Whatever my lot, thou hast taught me to say,<BR>&#8220;It is well, it is well with my soul.<BR><BR>It is well (It is well)<BR>With my soul (With my soul)<BR>It is well, it is well, with my soul.&#8221;<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Anyway, yeah, I&#8217;m sure he wasn&#8217;t exactly happy&#8230;. but, it was well with him.&nbsp; That&#8217;s something that I sort of aspire to.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>All for now.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Godspeed.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to dedicate this post to starswithfeet, who recently has commented on more of my posts then people that I actually know.&nbsp; Thank you.And a note to my friends: you suck.&nbsp; Ok, not really, but starswithfeet is much cooler then all of you. Now&#8230; on to the post \ud83d\ude09 good old burn-outs&#8230;. nothing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/?p=729\" 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\/729"}],"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=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}